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-Zuba and Koro-Ija,[2] are said to be "nearly intelligible" with Jijili, but no data is available.[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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