Zele language

Zele
Jere
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Bassa LGA, northern Plateau State
Native speakers	(23,000 cited 1972)[1]
Language family	Niger–Congo? Atlantic–Congo Benue–Congo Kainji East Kainji Zele
Language codes
ISO 639-3	jer
Glottolog	nucl1376

Zele
Person	oZele
People	aZele
Language	eZele

Jere men in 1880

Zele (Zelle, Jere, Jera) is an East Kainji language of Bassa LGA in northern Plateau State, Nigeria.^[2]

References

1. Zele at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
2. Blench, Roger M. 2018. Nominal affixing in the Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria. In John R. Watters (ed.), East Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs, 59–106. Berlin: Language Science Press. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1314323

• Blench, Roger. 2010. Plural verbs in the languages of Central Nigeria.