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Extinct language of Chad
Mimi of Decorse, also known as Mimi of Gaudefroy-Demombynes and Mimi-D, is a language of Chad that is attested only in a word list labelled "Mimi" that was collected c. 1900 by G. J. Decorse and published by Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes.[1] Joseph Greenberg (1960) classified it as a Maban language, like the rather remote Maban relative Mimi of Nachtigal. However, George Starostin (2011) rejects this classification, arguing that similarities to Maban are due to contact with locally dominant Maba (the similarities are with that language specifically, not with the entire Maban family), and provisionally regards it as a language isolate, though it is suggestive of Central Sudanic.[2]
The more stable of Mimi-D and Mimi-N's attested vocabulary is as follows:
gloss Mimi-D Mimi-N two mel søn eye dyo kal fire sou stone muguru hand sil rai what ɲeta die dafaya drink andʒi ab dog ɲuk moon aɾ claw/nail fer blood ari one deg ul-un tooth ɲain ziːk eat ɲyam hair suf (Arabic?) fuːl water engi sun (Fur?) nose fir hur mouth ɲyo mil ear feɾ kuyi bird kabal-a bone kadʒi sun sey tree su kill kuduma foot rep zaŋ horn kamin meat ɲyu neŋ egg dʒulut black liwuk head bo kidʒ-i night lem fish gonas see yakoeRetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue
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