# Mimi language

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**Mimi** is a name applied to several at-best distantly related [Nilo-Saharan languages](/source/Nilo-Saharan_languages) of the [Wadai](/source/Ouadda%C3%AF_Region) area of Chad. It is most commonly used for the Fur relative [Amdang](/source/Amdang_language), with several tens of thousands of speakers, but also for two extinct and possibly [Maban languages](/source/Maban_languages), [Mimi of Nachtigal](/source/Mimi_of_Nachtigal) and [Mimi of Decorse](/source/Mimi_of_Decorse).

Tucker & Bryan (1956:53)[1] state,

- *Several other languages, of which nothing is known, are said to be spoken in District [Oum Hadjer](/source/Oum_Hadjer)* [at the time in Wadai]. *The people speaking them are known to the Arabs as RA TANING, i.e. 'those who speak the strange language'. The names MIGE or **míkí**, **màkú**, and **mànyáŋ** were recorded.*

These names have occasionally appeared in language lists as putative Maban languages.[2]

## References

1. Archibald Norman Tucker, Margaret Arminel Bryan, *The non-Bantu languages of north-eastern Africa*

1. For example, classification code 05-AAB of *Linguasphere*.

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