Jju language

Jju
Kaje
Native to Nigeria
Region Kaduna State
Native speakers
(300,000 cited 1988)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 kaj
Glottolog jjuu1238[2]

Jju is a Plateau language and the native language of the Bajju people of central Nigeria. It is also locally known as "Kaje". As of 1988, there were approximately 300,000 speakers.[3]

Jju is one of the Central Plateau languages.[3][4]

References

  1. Jju at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Jju". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. 1 2 "Jju". Ethnologue. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
  4. "Glottolog 3.0 - Jju". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2017-05-05.
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