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South Plateau
Jilic–Eggonic
Geographic
distribution		Nigeria
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
Subdivisions
  • Eggonic
  • Jilic
Glottologjili1242

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 
 Jilic (Koro) 

Jili (Lijili)

Jijili (Tanjijili)

Two languages or dialects, Koro-Ija and Koro-Zuba (collectively known as Ija-Zuba),[1] are said to be "nearly intelligible" with Jijili, but no language data exists.[2]

References

  1. ^ Ija-Zuba at Ethnologue (16th ed., 2009) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Blench (2008) Prospecting proto-Plateau. Manuscript.


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