This is a thread about the Miship people. A minority tribe found in Plateau State. Anyone that has any information about the tribe or needs to correct anything written in this thread please feel free to do so.
The Miship people (Chip) are found in Pankshin Local Government, Plateau State. The Tribe, language, kingdom is Miship.
'The history of the Miship People
The historical origin of Miship people is no different from that of many other African language groups. Their origin as an ethnic group remains a topic of speculation, largely because there are no historians that ascertain where and how they originated. There areseveral oral traditions about the early migration of the Miship people to their present homeland in North-Eastern part of modern day Nigeria. For example, one oral tradition states that the Miship are believed to have migrated from the Chad Basin to their present homeland between 1110-1150 AD. They left the Chad Basin area along with other ethnic groups, the Ngas, Mupun, Tal, Tarok, Goemai, Sura and Pyem, went to Kaneem Borno and later migrated to their present areas in Plateau state of Nigeria. Another oral tradition documented in Banwar (1997) states that the Miship migrated between the fifteenth to eighteenth century from Kaneem Borno to their present homeland in Pankshin –Plateau State, Nigeria. In another similar oral tradition the two clans Longmaar and Jiɓaam, which are also referred to as dialects, have different views about their origin. According to the
Longmaar, their origin seems to be obscure, in the sense that they claim not to have migrated from anywhere; instead they originated from where they are, in other words, the Logmaar claim to be the aborigines of their present homeland. While the Jiɓaam; are believed to have
migrated from Chad Basin into their present home land in Nigeria between the fifteenth and sixteenth century. A further oral tradition claims that speakers of the two dialects of Miship called Longmaar and Jiɓaam, are believed to have migrated from different places at a point in time to their present homeland. Under this tradition, the Longmaar claim to have migrated from Jipari Kisa (Asa) to their present area, while the Jiɓaam are said to have relocated from Mwaghvul to their present place of abode. All these oral traditions are subject to authentic scholarly historical analysis. We hope that our study will stimulate historians to investigate the origin of these people vis-à-vis the aboriginal settlement of the people and document them for the future generations.
The Miship people and their language
The word “Miship” refers both to the kingdom and the language. Miship is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Plateau State, Nigeria. ...[T]he Afro-Asiatic language family is usually considered to include the following branches: Berber, Chadic, Cushitic, Ancient-Egyptian, and Semitic. Miship belongs to the Chadic family which is divided into four thus: West Chadic, Central Chadic (Biu-mandara) East Chadic and Masa. Miship belongs to the family of West Chadic, which is further divided into “A” and “B.” Miship language falls under the “A” group of the West chadic. Other languages that fall under the “A” group of the west Chadic include Kare-Kare, Ngas, Kanakuru, Mupun, Bolanci, Hausa, etc.
The population of Miship people
The population of Miship people, according to the 1991/92 census, was 17,000, excluding the Hausa Fulani and other groups that live in the area. Since the last population census figures above, there has been tremendous growth in population of the Miship because of improved
medical facilities and institutions of learning such as post primary schools and the availability of college of education. These all reduced the migration of the people to urban cities in search of better living conditions.'
SOURCE: http://english.fullerton.edu/publications/clnArchives/pdf/MishipPpl.pdf

Very informative..

Continuation:
The socio-economic activities of the Miship people
Several socio-cultural institutions existed in the region before the emergence of the two major religions of Islam and Christianity. These include marriage ceremony, birth rite, naming ceremony, circumcision, death rite, to mention but a few. Economically, Miships are predominantly farmers; agriculture has been the primary occupation of the people. Among the crops they produce are beans, yam, rice, guinea-corn, and cowpeas. Other activities like blacksmithing, weaving, hunting, and mining can be regarded as the secondary occupations of the people.
Traditional Medicines in Mishipland
The concept of medicine among the Miship people varies from the modern concept of medicine both in theory and practice. This is because Miship traditional medicine is different from the western medicine both in terms of the conception of the workings of human body, how illnesses occur, and how they are to be treated. This type of medicine has been in existence in Miship land for ages. It has also been discovered that there are various types of traditional medicine practitioners in the land, diviners (gukum), midwives (matlabla) herbalists (go’ən) and Orthopedics (gopwat). The above mentioned Miship traditional practitioners functions and the types of materials they use vary. There is a general belief among the practitioners that jinn have super-natural power, can talk and offer cure for ailment from plants, animal parts, solution, and smoke.
In the same vein, two of Miship traditional practitioners i.e., the diviners (gukum) and the herbalist (go’en), in addition to the medicine, give instructions as to how their medicine should be administered. If this is violated, the patient can become insane. The diviners (gukum) are responsible for determining the cause of illness, which in some cases are believed to come from spirits. The major function of the midwives (matlabla) among the Miship is child delivery. They are mostly female and they use different indigenous plants, trees and oilmen to aid child birth. The herbalists (go’ən) are also popular in Miship land. They are involved in the day to day treatment of common diseases in the community and can treat various infections and chronic diseases. They use plants, leaves, roots, and animal skins, to mention but a few, while the Orthopedics (gopwat ) primary role is to fix fractures and broken bones. Their ability to diagnose the fracture is considered a gift from their ancestors, even though nowadays others believe that the power comes from God.

The dialects of Miship
Two dialects are identified in Miship: Longmaar and Jiɓaam. The Longmaar dialect is regarded as the prestige dialect. It is spoken in the area where the chief resides. The Jiɓaam dialect is regarded as less prestigious, although this is our view based on socio-political usage
of the two dialects. Jiɓaam dialect speakers of Miship consider their dialect more prestigious because of it richness in vocabulary. It also believed to be closer to the proto type form of the language. We wish to draw the attention of our dialectologists to the facts with regards to that aspect. At this point it is important to point out that we have observed two major differences between the two dialects namely: lexical and phonological differences.
Lexical differences between Longmaar and Jiɓaam dialects of Miship
The Longmaar and Jiɓaam dialects differ at the lexical level. At this level, we discovered texpress the same thing. Based on the Grund wordlist the following differences are discovered, as illustrated in Example 1 below:
Lexical differences in two or more words
Longmaar dialect Jiɓaam dialect Gloss
Karem karam mat
erem aram guinea-corn
shuar hwar laugh
tughur kagham tughur dawn courage
tang góng tang báp shoulder
deng dèng thin
Apenáng penáng when?
Bifiipo biaappo to be astonished
shwar shuar laugh
mì’ar miyar to become fat
Tughún kaabi kaa cap
mato mánglé ngum mangle lorry
A close examination of the above examples reveals that there are differences in one or more sounds in Miship words which will be discussed under the section on phonology.
Lexical differences in words expressing the same meaning
Based on the data collected (Grund- word-list), it has been observed that there are instances in the language where different words in the two dialects are used to express the same thing/meaning, as shown below in Example 2:
Longmaar dialect Jiɓaam dialect Gloss
mùn gwom/guom food
el lee clothes/load
ok bwan to dig
miskagham long chief/king
pekaa gang age mate
pəɓit pəmangɓit dawn
putaá kon to drop
re ɗel enter
takaa shandel to cross
táp kang herd (animals)
yon mbagani big,large,great
kát wule small
ɗənpəzung təptughur reckon
kó gabkìnaar divide
ngukəlom yawus blacksmith
ɗa’am jang mos calabash
mato ngum car
təl shak to gather
tenyanyil yashinsam to press
The examples above reveal that for words in the two dialects no apparent correlation appears
between related words. There is no link between the two words. In other words, themorphological or grammatical links between the two forms in the dialects are no longer apparent in forms that refer to the same thing. It is important to note that these lexical
differences between the two varieties are numerous. Phonological differences between Longmaar and Jiɓaam dialects
The phonological differences between the two dialects are minor; the only difference in the two dialects is the vowel /a/. In Longmaar dialect this vowel /a/ is realized as /e/ when it occurs in the same environment in Jiɓaam , The difference is usually at the beginning of a
word, and in the medial position of a word. We wish to point out that it is in only few lexical items in the two dialects of the language that these phenomena occur. As shown below in Example 3:
Longmaar dialect Jiɓaam dialect Gloss
Karem karam mat
Erem aram guinea-corn
Deng dang thin
It has been observed that in question words, the vowel /a/ is usually deleted/drop in Jiɓaam. As illustrated below in 4:

Longmaar dialect Jiɓaam dialect Gloss
apènàn? pènàn? when?
amé? mé? what?
awé? wé? who?
adənè? dəne? which?
ané? né? where?
aɗáng? ɗáng? how many/how much?

In a nutshell, two types of linguistic variations between Longmaar and Jiɓaam dialects of Miship are identified. These are lexical and phonological variations/differences. At the lexical level it was discovered that there exist differences in one or more sounds and also
differences in words used to express the same thing/ meaning. At the phonological level it has been found that the vowel /a/ in Jiɓaam is realized as /e/ in Lognmaar when it occurs at the beginning and in between two consonants in some few words of the language. Similarly
the same vowel /a/ in question words is deleted in Jiɓaam as shown above. Finally, from what has been analyzed, it was concluded that the differences between the two dialects of Miship i.e., Longmaar and Jiɓaam are relatively few. As such a high degree of mutual intelligibility is enjoyed between the different dialect speakers of Miship.

Please how do i get antispam bot to stop banning me. The above write ups were gotten from the same article http://english.fullerton.edu/publications/clnArchives/pdf/MishipPpl.pdf. Now for things not in the article: The Miship people are commonly referred to as Chip; so anywhere you see chip in any list that has the Nigerian tribes just know its Miship and vice versa, some people add H when spelling the tribe; example Mhiship. The publication above is possibly the only online information you might find. Anyways moving on; Chip people also love palm wine; in my opinion we drink more palm wine compared to burukutu. Musical Instruments: Nveku: a flute like instrument, jang a horn like instrument (the only two i know anyone with more information should please write here). The first picture is of people playing nveku. Pictures of other things (don't know some of their uses but someone can explain it). The second picture is a sieve. Pictures Source: https://www./mishipposm/photos/

Words In Chip and names of foods:
Nan – God
War- Kunu
Gwom - Tuwo
Kapa - Rice
Gwom Kapa Tuwon Shinkafa
Agas-Teeth
La- child
Mos-burukutu (but mos is now used to refer to as alcohol)
Jep- plural of children
As- dog
Errrr- goat
En- Medicine
Nda - Father
Ter shakap a- Good Morning; Reply is Ter Shakap o
Nan yakal kih mun - Good night but the literal meaning is May God wake us up.
Kuzuk - acha
Mor - oil
Plang- Thank you
Bam - help
Long- King
Food
Gwom Kuzuk; made with acha, Lu ko kih lem - Chicken with lem (don't know the english name of lem) It's used the same way bread crumbs are used on chicken. Tok Lenden; also known as black soup., nguk, nawe. Cambar - made out of dried sweet potato.
More pictures below:https://www./mishipposm/photos/

Sorry for the unclear pictures, this masquerade is called dabong; Source: https://www./mishipposm/photos/. The third picture is nawe; don't know what the fourth is.

More Pictures: https://www./mishipposm/photos/. There is a cultural festival that holds every year, it started in 2012. Its called Bhit Retyit. People generally dance in a circle as seen in the first picture, the drummer stays in the arranged circle and others that might want to dance; mostly men i think

The beauty of the Miship lands, the villages that make up chip; some of the villages are: Jibam, Longmaar, Longkat, Grong, Doka, Grong, etc. Source: https://www./mishipposm/photos/

The Jibam Bridge : https://www./mishipposm/photos/. The bridge was commissioned in 2010 by Goodluck Jonathan. Before this bridge was built you would have to cross the river to get to the village. No car could get there; well unless you followed Shendam, but the roads were bad so...The river is actually really deep.

Good info. Proudly Mhiship from Jibaam

Nice one. I am just hearing about your people for the first time

Please can someone help me out with the mhiship traditional bride ride

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