title: Mimi of Nachtigal
text: # 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 ca. 1870 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:
  
  | 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 |
  