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Jilbe
Jilbe
Native to	Nigeria
Region	Borno State
Native speakers	Last spoken by a elder man in 2006 (to a undated number of fewer than 20) (2008)
Language family	Afro-Asiatic Chadic Biu–Mandara Kotoko (B.1) (?) Jilbe; ; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	jie
Glottolog	jilb1238
ELP	Jilbe

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]

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^ ^a ^b ^c Jilbe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[e18-1] Jilbe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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Summary

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