Jere language
Jere (Jera) is a dialect cluster of Kainji languages in Nigeria. It is named after the Zelle (Jere) dialect.
| Jere | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Nigeria |
| Region | Kano and Kaduna states |
Native speakers | (23,000 cited 1972)[1] |
| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Either:jer – Jere (incl. Panawa)pwb – Panawa |
| Glottolog | boze1240 |
| Zelle | |
|---|---|
| Person | Ozelle |
| People | Azelle |
| Language | Ezelle |
| Boze | |
|---|---|
| Person | Unaboze |
| People | Anaboze |
| Language | Eboze |
| Sanga | |
|---|---|
| Person | o–Sanga |
| People | a–Sanga |
| Language | i–Sanga |
| Panawa | |
|---|---|
| Person | unuPanawa |
| People | anaPanawa |
| Language | iPanawa |
| Bunu | |
|---|---|
| Person | Ànarubùnu, (Anorubuna, Narabuna) |
| Language | Ìbunu |
| Lɔrɔ | |
|---|---|
| Person | ɔnɔLɔrɔ |
| People | anoLɔrɔ |
| Language | iLɔrɔ |
Jere men in 1880
Varieties
Language varieties in the Jere cluster are:[2]
- Boze
- Gusu
- Jere
- Ibunu-Lɔrɔ
- Panawa
Boze (ɛBoze), also called Buji, is spoken in seven villages to the west and northwest of Jos.[3]
People
The stubborn man Jere is found in the village Jengre of Plateau State. Today, many Jere people are found in places like Borno, Bauchi and Plateau State of Nigeria. Google has inscribed a location between Jos and Saminaka of Kaduna State called Jere on Google Map. Many have been wondering why Google did that. This reason is only known to Google as connected to its data base of mapping.
References
- Jere (incl. Panawa) at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Panawa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
- 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.
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