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Kaje (Jju)

Spoken in

Nigeria
speaker 300,000
Linguistic
classification
Language codes
ISO 639-3

kaj

The Kaje language (also called kache , Jju and kajji ; ISO code is kaj) is a platoid Niger-Congo language used by 300,000 people in the Nigerian state of Kaduna .

The ethnic group who speak this language as their mother tongue are known as Kaje, Kajji, Kache, Jju, and Baju, but are called Bajju and live in houses on the grassy savannah in the volcanic hills of the Zangon Katab district .

The language is a Benue-Congo language , and belongs to the narrower group of plateau languages .

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Individual evidence

  1. kaj
  2. (1988 SIL)
  3. James Stuart Olson : The peoples of Africa: an ethnohistorical dictionary
  4. Languages ​​of the world: Jju a language of Nigeria