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Jili language

Jili (Lijili) is a Plateau language of Nigeria. It is one of several languages which go by the ambiguous name Koro.

Jili
Lijili
Native toNigeria
RegionNassarawa State
Native speakers
40,000 (2006)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3mgi
Glottologliji1238
Jili[2]
PersonJijili
PeopleMijili
LanguageLijili

Due to 19th-century slave raids, Jili speakers are scattered across different areas of central Nigeria.[3]

References edit

  1. ^ Jili at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)  
  2. ^ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  3. ^ Blench, Roger M. 2018. Nominal affixes and number marking in the Plateau languages of Central Nigeria. In John R. Watters (ed.), East Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs, 107–172. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1314325


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