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(Redirected from Jere language) Kainji language spoken in Nigeria
Zele
Jere
Native toNigeria
RegionBassa LGA, northern Plateau State
Native speakers(23,000 cited 1972)
Language familyNiger–Congo?
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.

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
Platoid languages
Jukunoid
Kainji
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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