Jimi language (Nigeria)

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Jimi
Spoken in: Nigeria 
Region: Bauchi State
Total speakers: 1,000
Language family: Afro-Asiatic
 Chadic
  West Chadic
   B
    B.3
     Jimi
Language codes
ISO 639-1: none
ISO 639-2:
ISO 639-3: jmi

Jimi (also known as Bi-Gimu) is an Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Jimi village in Bauchi State, Nigeria. [1] ISO 639-3 refers to this Jimi as [Jimi (Nigeria)] to distinguish it from the Biu-Mandara Jimi (Cameroon).

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  1. ^ Raymond G. Gordon, Jr, ed. 2005. Ethnologue: Languages of the World. 15th edition. Dallas: Summer Institute of Linguistics.

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