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 by Gustav Nachtigal. Nachtigal's data was subsequently published by Lukas & Voelckers (1938).

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.

Basic vocabulary

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

See also

• Mimi of Decorse
• (Wiktionary)

References