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...

called Mimi, Mima or Biltine; the name "Mimi", however, is also applied to two extinct Maban languages of the area; Mimi of Nachtigal and Mimi of Decorse. Wolf...

labelled "Mimi", collected by Decorse (Mimi-D) and Nachtigal (Mimi-N), have also been classified as Maban, though this has been contested. Mimi-N appears...

little data to go on. The more stable of Mimi-N and Mimi-D's attested vocabulary is as follows: Mimi of Decorse Mimi of Nachtigal word list (Wiktionary) Lukas...

with several tens of thousands of speakers, but also for two extinct and possibly Maban languages, Mimi of Nachtigal and Mimi of Decorse. Tucker & Bryan...

not previously been suggested: ? Mimi of Decorse By 2015, and again in 2017, Blench had refined the subclassification of this model, linking Maban with...

language Mimi of Decorse is suggestive of Central Sudanic, though he provisionally treats it as an isolate. Boyeldieu (2010) states that the inclusion of Kresh...

population are discovered. An example of a language that has caused multiple problems for classification is Mimi of Decorse in Chad. This language is only attested...

The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2...

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language spoken in Chad. Its speakers are divided into four groups, each of which has its own dialect: the Karanga (Kurunga), Kashmere (Kachmere), Bakha...

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comparative list of 200 words from Bua, Niellim, Fanian and Tunia languages, with a short grammar and a few sentences collected by Decorse. George Cœdès...

Quote: "In the past, a key component of Chad's economy was the slave trade" (see photo's caption). Christopher R. DeCorse (2001). West Africa During the Atlantic...