Jili (Lijili) is a Plateau language of Nigeria. It is one of several languages which go by the ambiguous name Koro.
Due to 19th-century slave raids, Jili speakers are scattered across different areas of central Nigeria.[3]
References
- ^ Jili at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ^ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
- ^ 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