South Plateau languages

South Plateau
Jilic–Eggonic
Geographic
distribution		 Nigeria
Linguistic classification

Niger–Congo

Subdivisions
  • Eggonic
  • Jilic
Glottolog jili1242[1]

The South Plateau languages, also known as Jilic–Eggonic, are spoken in central Nigeria. Eggon has 150,000 speakers and Jili (Lijili, Mijili) perhaps 100,000.

Classification

Jilic (Koro) and Eggonic are clearly valid groups. Their connection was proposed in Blench (2006, 2008).

South Plateau 

 Eggonic 


Eggon

Ake



 Jilic (Koro) 


Jili (Lijili)

Jijili (Tanjijili)




Two languages or dialects, Koro-Ija and Koro-Zuba (collectively known as Ija-Zuba),[2] are said to be "nearly intelligible" with Jijili, but no language data exists.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Jilic–Eggonic". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. ↑ Ija-Zuba at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009)
  3. ↑ Blench (2008) Prospecting proto-Plateau. Manuscript.


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