Miship language

Miship
Miship
Chip
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Plateau State
Native speakers	(6,000 cited 1976)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic West Chadic Bole–Angas Angas (A.3) Miship; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mjs
Glottolog	mish1244

Miship, or Chip, is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria. Doka is a dialect.^[1] Blench lists the two dialects Longmaar and Jiɓaam.^[2]

The Chip people are found in Pankshin LGA.^[3]

People

The traditional occupation of Miship people is farming. The people call themselves as well as their abode, Miship while outsiders wrongly call them and also their abode, Chip.^{[citation needed]}

Oral tradition states that they migrated from Kanem-Bornu to their present homeland with other tribes, Ngas, Mupun, and Mwaghavul.^[4]

Most Miship names are unisex, so in order to differentiate a man from a woman, the contracted form is used i.e. the prefix Na is added to the root word of the woman's name and Da is added to the root word of the man's. For example, for a man and a woman both sharing:

Nanɗi, the man would be Danan, and the woman Nanan.
Ɗenlong, the man would be Daɗen, and the woman Naɗen.
Shakaham = Dasha/Nasha.

Words

God - Naan / Nan
Father - Nda
Child - La
Girl - Larep
Boy - La/La wu mis
Wash - Vwang
Person - Gurum
Rain - Fuan/Fwan
Children - Jep
Food - Sɨ/ Gwom/Gom/Mun

Rice - Kapa
Acha - Kɨzuk
Soup - Tok
Chicken - Koo
Dog - As
Goat - Ɨh
Meat - Lu
King - Long
Animal - Long/Lu
Wild animal - Lu ɗem

Lu can be used to refer to meat from animals. For example, 'chicken' would be Lu Koo. It can also be used to refer to animal. For example, 'Lu' in the following statement stands for animal: 'Mme a lu ɗe mme a gurum ma' = One (of the two) is not an animal while the other is human (direct translation).

Phrases

What is your name - Sɨm gɨ a we eh? (male); Sɨm yi a we eh? (female)
Good night - Naan yaghal kɨ mun/Mu foghot ɓit/Naan ep mun
Bye - Ɗang mu kaat
Good morning - Teer (shaghap) ah?/Yaghal gwe ah?
Thank you - Plangɓwer
I am hungry - Neen laa nnan

Numbers

1)One - Kɨme
2)Two - Vɨl
3)Three - Kun
4)Four - Feer
5)Five - Paat
6)Six - Peme
7)Seven - Poghovɨl
8)Eight - Poghokun
9)Nine - Poghofaar
10)Ten - Sar
11)Eleven - Sarpo-kɨme/Sarka-kɨme
20)Twenty - Yagurum
21)Twenty-one - Yagurum kɨ kɨme
30)Thirty - Yagurum kɨ sar
31)Thirty-one -Yagurum kɨ sarpo-kɨme/Yagurum kɨ sarka-kɨme
40)Forty - Yakgurum vɨl
41)Forty-one -Yakgurum vɨl kɨ kɨme
50)Fifty - Yakgurum vɨl kɨ sar
60)Sixty - Yakgurum kun
70)Seventy -Yakgurum kun kɨ sar
71)Seventy-one - Yakgurum kun kɨ sarpo-kihme/sarka-kɨme
80)Eighty - Yakgurum feer
81)Eighty-one -Yakgurum feer kɨ kɨme
90)Ninety -Yakgurum feer kɨ sar
91)Ninety-one - Yakgurum feer kɨ sarpo-kɨme/sarka-kɨme
100)One hundred - Yakgurum paat/Ɗaa kɨme/Ɗali kɨme
200)Two hundred - Ndaam kɨme/Ɗaa vɨl/Ɗali vɨl/yakgurum sar

References

^ ^a ^b Miship at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Blench, Roger. 2017. Current research on the A3 West Chadic languages.
^ "Official Website of Plateau State". www.plateaustate.gov.ng. Retrieved 2016-12-26.
^ Mohammed, Aminu Muazu; Katwal, Permark Isah (2010). "The Miship: People, language, and dialects" (PDF). California Linguistic Notes.

[e18-1] Miship at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[Blench2017-2] Blench, Roger. 2017. Current research on the A3 West Chadic languages.

[3] "Official Website of Plateau State". www.plateaustate.gov.ng. Retrieved 2016-12-26.

[4] Mohammed, Aminu Muazu; Katwal, Permark Isah (2010). "The Miship: People, language, and dialects" (PDF). California Linguistic Notes.

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