Mimi of Nachtigal

Mimi of Nachtigal
Mimi-N
Spoken in Chad
Native speakers ? (attested ca. 1870)
Language family
Nilo-Saharan?
  • Maban
    • Mimi of Nachtigal
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Linguist List 0f9

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. 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.[1]

See Mimi of Decorse for some of the attested vocabulary.

References

  1. ^ Starostin, George. On Mimi, Journal of Language Relationship, v. 6, 2011, pp. 115-140.