Jili language explained

Jili
Nativename:Lijili
Region:Nassarawa State
States:Nigeria
Speakers:40,000
Date:2006
Ref:e25
Familycolor:Niger-Congo
Fam2:Atlantic–Congo
Fam3:Benue–Congo
Fam4:Plateau
Fam5:South
Fam6:Jilic
Iso3:mgi
Glotto:liji1238
Glottorefname:Lijili
Jili≪Ref Name:"BlenchAtlas4">Book: Blench, Roger. An Atlas of Nigerian Languages. Kay Williamson Educational Foundation. 2019. 4th. Cambridge.

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.[1]

Notes and References

  1. 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.