Zele language

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Zele (Zelle, Jere, Jera) is an East Kainji language of Bassa LGA in northern Plateau State, Nigeria.[2]

Zele
Jere
Native toNigeria
RegionBassa LGA, northern Plateau State
Native speakers
(23,000 cited 1972)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3jer
Glottolognucl1376
Zele
PersonoZele
PeopleaZele
LanguageeZele
Jere men in 1880

References

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  1. ^ Zele at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Blench, Roger M. 2018. Nominal affixing in the Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria. In John R. Watters (ed.), East Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs, 59–106. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1314323