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The Peoples Known as Mimi
The Mimi of Nachtigal and the Mimi of Gaudefroy-Demombynes, both of whom speak a Maban language of the Nilo-Saharan language family, are identified by the names of their first investigators: Gustav Nachtigal and Maurice Gaudefroy-Demombynes, respectively. The name Mimi sometimes is applied to a people who call themselves Amdang and who are also known as Biltine. Although they inhabit the same region of Chad as the other two peoples known as Mimi and speak a Nilo-Saharan language, their language is closely related to that of the Fur, who speak another relatively isolated Nilo-Saharan language spoken mainly in Darfur in Sudan ...(100 of 167 words)