Jijili language

The Jijili language, Tanjijili, also known as Ujijili, is a Plateau language of Nigeria. It is one of several languages which go by the name Koro.

Not to be confused with Jili language.
Jijili
Tanjijili
Native toNigeria
RegionNiger State
Native speakers
8,500 Jijili proper (2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3uji – inclusive code
Individual code:
vki – Ija-Zuba
Glottologtanj1247  Tanjijili[2]
ijaz1238  Ija-Zuba[3]
Jijili[4]
PersonUjijili
PeopleAjijili
LanguageTanjijili

Two languages or dialects, Koro-Ija and Koro-Zuba (collectively known as Ija-Zuba) are said to be "nearly intelligible" with Jijili, but no language data exists.[5]

References
  1. Jijili at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Ija-Zuba at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Tanjijili". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ija-Zuba". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  4. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  5. Blench (2008) Prospecting proto-Plateau Archived 2014-04-07 at the Wayback Machine. Manuscript.


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