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 c. 1870 by Gustav Nachtigal. Nachtigal's data was subsequently published by Lukas & Voelckers (1938).^[1]

Mimi of Nachtigal
Mimi-N
Native to	Chad
Era	attested c. 1870
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Maban Mimi of Nachtigal
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	mimi1241
Map of Maban languages. Mimi-N is labeled 1.

Classification

Joseph 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.^[2]

Basic vocabulary

The more stable of Mimi-N and Mimi-D's attested vocabulary is as follows:

gloss	Mimi-N	Mimi-D
two	søn	mel
eye	kal	dyo
fire		sou
stone		muguru
hand	rai	sil
what		ɲeta
die		dafaya
drink	ab	andʒi
dog	ɲuk
moon		aɾ
claw/nail		fer
blood	ari
one	ul-un	deg
tooth	ziːk	ɲain
eat		ɲyam
hair	fuːl	suf (Arabic?)
water	sun (Fur?)	engi
nose	hur	fir
mouth	mil	ɲyo
ear	kuyi	feɾ
bird	kabal-a
bone	kadʒi
sun		sey
tree		su
kill		kuduma
foot	zaŋ	rep
horn		kamin
meat	neŋ	ɲyu
egg		dʒulut
black		liwuk
head	kidʒ-i	bo
night		lem
fish		gonas
see		yakoe

See also

• Mimi of Decorse
• Mimi of Nachtigal word list (Wiktionary)