Mimi of Nachtigal

Mimi of Nachtigal
	Mimi-N
Native to	Chad
Extinct	(attested ca. 1870)
Language family	Nilo-Saharan? Maban Mimi of Nachtigal; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	mimi1241

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 & Voelckers (1938).[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

See Mimi of Decorse for some of the attested vocabulary.

References

Lukas, Johannes & Otto Völckers. 1938. G. Nachtigal's Aufzeichnungen über die Sprache der Mimi in Wadai. Zeitschrift für Eingeborenensprachen 29. 145‒154.
Starostin, George. On Mimi, Journal of Language Relationship, v. 6, 2011, pp. 115-140.

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[1] Lukas, Johannes & Otto Völckers. 1938. G. Nachtigal's Aufzeichnungen über die Sprache der Mimi in Wadai. Zeitschrift für Eingeborenensprachen 29. 145‒154.

[2] Starostin, George. On Mimi, Journal of Language Relationship, v. 6, 2011, pp. 115-140.