Amdang
[aka Mimi, Mima, Mututu]Classification: Furan
·threatened
Classification: Furan
·threatened
Mimi, Mima, Mututu, Biltine, Andang, Andangti, Mime |
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Information from: “Une enquête sociolinguistique parmi les Amdang (Mimi) du Tchad: rapport technique” . Katharina Wolf (2010)
"Dans le canton de Mimi Goz, l’amdang domine dans la communication des Amdang entre eux. [...] La première langue des enfants amdang est l’amdang. La plupart des enfants parlent l’amdang plus souvent que l’arabe."
[English paraphrase] Most Amdang children speak Amdang as a first language, and speak Amdang more often than Arabic. The Amdang generally speak Amdang amongst themselves.
Arabic
Maba
Tama
Zaghawa
"50 %% of the interviewed individuals indicated a high level of proficiency in Chadian Arabic (level 4 or 5 of the Foreign Service Institute Scale, level 5 being that of a native speaker). But there are also monolingual Amdang with a very low level of Chadian Arabic."
Wadi Fira region, Biltine Departement, Biltine Sous-Préfecture, Mimi Goz and Mimi Hadjer cantons north of Biltine
"La langue amdang est parlée dans presque tous les villages des cantons de Mimi Goz et de Mimi Hadjer. La langue amdang est aussi parlée dans d’autres régions du Tchad, car il y a des villages amdang dans plusieurs sous-préfectures du Ouaddaï et du Batha et des Amdang un 43
peu partout au Tchad. Dans la plupart des villages amdang on continue à parler l’amdang avec les Amdang, par exemple à Kouchane-Tayero, dans la sous-préfecture de Goz Beïda."
[English paraphrase] Spoken in the Biltine, Ouaddaï, and Batha departments; spoken in almost all the villages in the Mimi Goz and Mimi Hadjer cantons.
Information from: “Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)” . M. Paul Lewis · SIL International
41,100 (2000). Population now greater in Batha and Ouaddaï regions than in the home region of Wadi Fira.
Information from: “A survey on language death in Africa” (402) . Sommer, Gabriele (1992) , Brenzinger, Matthias · Mouton de Gruyter
50000
The 1956 Population Census of Sudan counted only eight speakers of Mima.
Arabic
"[Grimes (1984)] suggests that Mimi is spoken north of Biltine in East Central Chad and possibly also in Sudan."