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]