Mimi of Nachtigal

Mimi of Nachtigal, or Mimi-N, is a language of Chad that is attested only in a word list labelled "Mimi" that was collected ca. 1870 by Gustav Nachtigal. Nachtigal's data was subsequently published by Lukas & Völckers (1938).[2]

Mimi of Nachtigal
Mimi-N
Native toChad
Extinct(attested ca. 1870)
Nilo-Saharan?
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologmimi1241[1]

Classification

Greenberg (1960) classified it as a Maban language, though a distant one. Subsequent researchers have supported a remote relationship, though there is little data to go on.[3]

Data

See Mimi of Decorse for some of the attested vocabulary.

gollark: I see.
gollark: Did you send that twice as a deliberate stylistic thing or just network/Discord horrors?
gollark: Admittedly, inflation-adjusting the distant past might be slightly tricky.
gollark: It's captioned.
gollark: We are in historically unprecedented times.

References

  1. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mimi-Nachtigal". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. Lukas, Johannes & Otto Völckers. 1938. G. Nachtigal's Aufzeichnungen über die Sprache der Mimi in Wadai. Zeitschrift für Eingeborenensprachen 29. 145‒154.
  3. Starostin, George. On Mimi, Journal of Language Relationship, v. 6, 2011, pp. 115-140.


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