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Zele language

Zele is an East Kainji language of Bassa LGA in northern Plateau State, Nigeria.

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Zele
Jere
Native toNigeria
RegionBassa LGA, northern Plateau State
Native speakers
(23,000 cited 1972)1
Language codes
ISO 639-3jer
Glottolognucl1376
Zele
PersonoZele
PeopleaZele
LanguageeZele
Jere men in 1880 source ↗

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

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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