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An Atlas of Nigerian Languages
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"A small number of old people among the Dijim speak this language"

Year of info

2011

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Gombe State, Nigeria

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9.889040, 11.751045

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"Balanga LGA, Gombe State. Cham town."

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"Balanga LGA, Gombe State. Cham town."

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Dijim

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~20

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"The Jalaa no longer exist as a distinct ethnic group. Jalaa is a language spoken by perhaps twenty elderly individuals among the Cham people of northeast Nigeria (Kleinwillinghöfer)."

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1999

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200

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2009

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Nigeria;

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  1. Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University
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  8. An index of Nigerian languages
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