Lela language

Lela or C’lela (Chilela) is a Kainji language of Nigeria. It is known as Dakarkari in Hausa.[3][4]

Lela
C’lela
Native toNigeria
RegionKebbi State, Niger State
Native speakers
(90,000 cited 1993)[1]
Dialects
  • Ribah
Language codes
ISO 639-3dri
Glottologclel1238[2]
Lela
Personk΄-Lélà
PeopleLélnà
Languagec΄-Lélà

References

  1. Lela at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "C'lela". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Blench, Roger (2012). "The Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria" (PDF). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  4. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.


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