Jili language

Not to be confused with Jijili language or Jingpho language.

Jili (Lijili) is a Plateau language of Nigeria. It is one of several languages which go by the ambiguous name Koro.

Jili
Lijili
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Nassarawa State
Native speakers	40,000 (2006)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Plateau South Jilic Jili
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mgi
Glottolog	liji1238

Jili[2]
Person	Jijili
People	Mijili
Language	Lijili

Due to 19th-century slave raids, Jili speakers are scattered across different areas of central Nigeria.^[3]

References

1. Jili at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
3. Blench, Roger M. 2018. Nominal affixes and number marking in the Plateau languages of Central Nigeria. In John R. Watters (ed.), East Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs, 107–172. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1314325