Jilbe language

Jilbe
Native to Nigeria
Region Borno State
Native speakers
 100 (1999)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3 jie
Glottolog jilb1238[2]

Jilbe (also known as Zoulbou) is an 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)
  2. ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Jilbe". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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