Bile (language)
| Bile | ||
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Spoken in |
Nigeria | |
| speaker | 30,000 | |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
bil |
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The Bile language (also bili, billanchi, bille and kunbille; ISO 639-3: bil) is a jarawoide language spoken by a total of 30,000 people on the Benue River in the Nigerian state of Adamawa .
The language is related to the Mbula-Bwazza [mbu]. The language is the mother tongue of the Bile people, of whom there are 45,000 members. However, only 30,000 of them can bile, the rest now speak the official language English as their mother tongue. Many Bile can also do the Hausa and the Adamaua-Fulfulde .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ bil
- ↑ Ethnologue
- ↑ Bile ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
