Miship language
language
Miship, or Chip, is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria. Doka is a dialect. Blench lists the two dialects Longmaar and Jiɓaam.
The Chip people are found in Pankshin LGA.
People
The Miship people refer to themselves and their homeland as Miship. However, outsiders often incorrectly call both the people and their land “Chip,” a term that has no meaning in the Miship language. The letter C does not exist in the Miship 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 typical Miship pronunciation of the English word cheap /tʃɪp/ is realized as /ʃɪp/.
Bible Translation
The New Testament is wholly translated into Miship 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.
The Oral Bible Translation is in progress.
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