Zele language explained

Zele
Also Known As:Jere
States:Nigeria
Region:Bassa LGA, northern Plateau State
Speakers:23,000
Date:1972
Ref:e18
Familycolor:Niger-Congo
Fam2:Atlantic–Congo
Fam3:Benue–Congo
Fam4:Kainji
Fam5:East Kainji
Iso3:jer
Glotto:nucl1376
Glottorefname:Nuclear Jere
Person:oZele
People:aZele
Language:eZele
Root:Zele

Zele (Zelle, Jere, Jera) is an East Kainji language of Bassa LGA in northern Plateau State, Nigeria.[1]

References

Notes and References

  1. 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.