{{Short description|Feature in some Semitic languages}} '''Mimation''' ({{langx|ar|تَمْيِيم}}, ''{{Transliteration|ar|ALA|tamyīm}}'') is the phenomenon of a suffixed ''{{Transliteration|sem|-m}}'' (the letter mem in many Semitic abjads) which occurs in some Semitic languages.
This occurs in Akkadian in singular nouns.<ref>[http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/words.html#mimmation Akkadian grammar: morphology] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090705085517/http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/words.html|date=2009-07-05}}, [http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/noun.html#case] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081216102305/http://www.sron.nl/~jheise/akkadian/noun.html#case|date=2008-12-16}} Akkadian grammar: Noun declension</ref> It was also present in the Proto-Semitic language.
It is retained in the plural and dual forms in Hebrew. It corresponds to the letter nun (-n) in Classical Arabic and is retained in the singular (nunation), dual, and plural.
== See also == * Nunation
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Category:Semitic linguistics
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