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Native to | Nigeria |
Region | Borno State |
Native speakers | Last spoken by a elder man in 2006 (to a undated number of fewer than 20) (2008)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | jie |
Glottolog | jilb1238 |
ELP | Jilbe |
Jilbe (also known as Zoulbou) is an critically endangered, probably extinct Afro-Asiatic language spoken in a single village in Borno State, Nigeria. It is also called Zoulbou.[1]
It is spoken in Jilbe town, across the Cameroon border from Dabanga town.[1]
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Tera (A.1) |
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Bura–Higi |
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Wandala (Mandara) (A.4) |
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Bata (Gbwata) (A.8) |
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Mandage (Kotoko) (B.1) |
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Italics indicate extinct languages. See also: Chadic languages |
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