Jilbe | |
States: | Nigeria |
Region: | Borno State |
Speakers: | Last spoken by a elder man in 2006 (to a undated number of fewer than 20) |
Date: | 2008 |
Ref: | e18 |
Familycolor: | Afro-Asiatic |
Fam2: | Chadic |
Fam3: | Biu–Mandara |
Fam4: | Kotoko (B.1) |
Fam5: | (?) |
Iso3: | jie |
Glotto: | jilb1238 |
Glottorefname: | Jilbe |
Jilbe (also known as Zoulbou) is a critically endangered, probably extinct Afro-Asiatic language spoken in a single village in Borno State, Nigeria. It is also called Zoulbou.
It is spoken in Jilbe town, across the Cameroon border from Dabanga town.