Zele language
Kainji language spoken in Nigeria
Zele | |
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Jere | |
Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Bassa LGA, northern Plateau State |
Native speakers | (23,000 cited 1972)[1] |
Language family | Niger–Congo?
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | jer |
Glottolog | nucl1376 |
Zele | |
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Person | oZele |
People | aZele |
Language | eZele |
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Zele (Zelle, Jere, Jera) is an East Kainji language of Bassa LGA in northern Plateau State, Nigeria.[2]
References
- ^ Zele at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Blench, Roger M. 2018. Nominal affixing in the Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria. In John R. Watters (ed.), East Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs, 59–106. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1314323
- Blench, Roger. 2010. Plural verbs in the languages of Central Nigeria.
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