Jilbe
Native toNigeria
RegionBorno State
Native speakers
Last spoken by a elder man in 2006 (to a undated number of fewer than 20) (2008)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3jie
Glottologjilb1238
ELPJilbe

Jilbe (also known as Zoulbou) is an critically endangered, probably extinct Afro-Asiatic language spoken in a single village in Borno State, Nigeria. It is also called Zoulbou.[1]

It is spoken in Jilbe town, across the Cameroon border from Dabanga town.[1]

Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Jilbe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)


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