Jili language
(Redirected from Lijili language)
| Jili | |
|---|---|
| Lijili | |
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Nassarawa State |
Native speakers | 40,000 (2006)[1] |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | mgi |
| Glottolog | liji1238 |
| Jili[2] | |
|---|---|
| Person | Jijili |
| People | Mijili |
| Language | Lijili |
Jili (Lijili) is a Plateau language of Nigeria. It is one of several languages which go by the ambiguous name Koro.
Due to 19th-century slave raids, Jili speakers are scattered across different areas of central Nigeria.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Jili at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ 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
