Jilbe language

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Jilbe
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]
Language codes
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]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Jilbe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)


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