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 to | Nigeria |
| Region | Nassarawa State |
Native speakers | (50,000 cited 1985)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mgi |
| Glottolog | liji1238[2] |
| Jili[3] | |
|---|---|
| Person | Jijili |
| People | Mijili |
| Language | Lijili |
Due to 19th-century slave raids, Jili speakers are scattered across different areas of central Nigeria.[4]
References
- Jili at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Lijili". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
- 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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