| Miship | |
|---|---|
| Chip | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Plateau State |
Native speakers | (6,000 cited 1976)[1] |
Afro-Asiatic
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mjs |
| Glottolog | mish1244 |
Miship, orChip, is anAfro-Asiatic language spoken inPlateau State,Nigeria. Doka is a dialect.[1] Blench lists the two dialectsLongmaar andJiɓaam.[2]
The Chip people are found inPankshin LGA.[3]
TheMiship people refer to themselves and their homeland asMiship. However, outsiders often incorrectly call both the people and their land “Chip,” a term that has no meaning in theMiship language. The letter C does not exist in theMiship orthography. Consequently, when adapting foreign words that contain the letter C with the sound /tʃ/,Miship naturally renders this sound as SH, pronounced /ʃ/. For example, the typicalMiship pronunciation of the English word cheap /tʃɪp/ is realized as /ʃɪp/.
The New Testament is wholly translated intoMiship by Mast Media Methodology, but it is yet to undergo the due process of Bible Translation; the peer checking, community testing, orthography checking and the consultant checking.TheOral Bible Translation is in progress. TheMiship Bible Translation Team is in partnership with NBTT for this project.
The traditional activities ofMiship people included farming, blacksmithing, weaving, carving among others butpalm wine tapping, trading and farming are now the major activities in theMiship land.[citation needed]
Oral tradition states that they migrated fromKanem-Bornu to their present homeland with other tribes, Ngas, Mupun, and Mwaghavul.[4]
Miship names are generally unisex, so in order to identify the gender of the bearer of a name, the contracted form (which can be modified by a masculine prefix,Da or a feminine prefixNa to indicate that the name bearer is a male or female respectively) is used. For example, for a man and a woman both sharing:
In the above examples the contracted forms of the names (which are usually the root word of the names) areNaan,Ɗen andShaa respectively. Therefore,Da is added to each of them to produceDanaan,Daɗen andDashaa as the male restricted variants of the namesNaanɗi, Ɗenlong andShakagham respectively. AndNa is added to each of them to produceNanaan,Naɗen andNashaa as the female restricted variants of the namesNaanɗi, Ɗenlong andShakagham respectively.
English - Miship
Luu can be meat from animals for example,luu koo means chicken (meat).Luu can also refer to animal e.gluu in the following statement stands for animal: "Mmee a luu ɗe mmee a gurum ma" meaning, "Neither of the two (persons in comparison) is an animal (AMiship proverb meaning "People should be treated equally").
