Fali_language_of_Jilbu

Zizilivakan language

Zizilivakan language

Chadic language of Cameroon and Nigeria

Zizilivakan (Ziziliveken, Ziliva, Àmzírív), also known as Fali of Jilbu and Ulan Mazhilvən, is a Chadic language spoken in Cameroon in Far North Province and neighboring Nigeria. It is one of several in the area that go by the name Fali.

Quick Facts Native to, Region ...

Zizilivékén is spoken in Cameroon by only a few hundred people (Crozier and Blench 1992), near the border with Nigeria. It is spoken west of Guili (Bourrha commune, Mayo-Tsanaga department, Far North Region). It is also spoken in Nigeria around the town of Jilvu. In Cameroon, it is not spoken as much as in Nigeria.[2]

Notes

  1. [1]
    Zizilivakan at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. [2]
    Binam Bikoi, Charles, ed. (2012). Atlas linguistique du Cameroun (ALCAM) [Linguistic Atlas of Cameroon]. Atlas linguistique de l'Afrique centrale (ALAC) (in French). Vol. 1: Inventaire des langues. Yaoundé: CERDOTOLA. ISBN 9789956796069.


Stub icon

This article about a language spoken in Cameroon is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub icon

This article about a language spoken in Nigeria is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This article about a Biu-Mandara language is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Fali_language_of_Jilbu, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.