Zele language

Kainji language spoken in Nigeria
Zele
Jere
Native toNigeria
RegionBassa LGA, northern Plateau State
Native speakers
(23,000 cited 1972)[1]
Language family
Language codes
ISO 639-3jer
Glottolognucl1376
Zele
PersonoZele
PeopleaZele
LanguageeZele
Jere men in 1880

Zele (Zelle, Jere, Jera) is an East Kainji language of Bassa LGA in northern Plateau State, Nigeria.[2]

References

  1. ^ Zele at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ 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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JukunoidKainji
Kambari
Basa
Kamuku
Shiroro
Northwest
Lakes
East
Northern
Kauru
Shammo
Other
Plateau
Tarokoid
South
Alumic
Ninzic
East
Central
Beromic
Yukubenic
Ndunic
others


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