Vori language

Vori (also called Surubu or Skrubu) is a Kainji language of Nigeria.

Vori
Surubu
TiVori
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Kaduna State
Native speakers	3,000 (2016)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Kainji East Kainji Vori
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sde
Glottolog	suru1258
ELP	Kaivi

Vori[2]
Person	PiVori
People	AVori
Language	TiVori

Roger Blench (2016)^[3] reported that the people referred to as Surubu in the present literature are called Vori. Their main centre is the town of Geshere, which is west of Mariri on the Lere road. The Vori live in 32 settlements, and there are about 50,000 to 70,000 speakers.

Bina, another undocumented language, is spoken nearby.

References

1. Vori at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
3. Blench, Roger. 2016. Weeping over the disappearance of Nigeria’s minority languages: how to get more reliable information and what to do about it. Presentation, Jos Linguistic Circle.