Lela language

Lela
Dakarkari
C΄-Lélà
Native toNigeria
RegionKebbi State, Niger State, Zamfara State
Native speakers
(90,000 cited 1993)[1]
Dialects
  • Ribah
Language codes
ISO 639-3dri
Glottologclel1238
Lela
PersonK΄-Lélà
PeopleLélnà
LanguageC΄-Lélà

Lela or C'lela is a Kainji language of Nigeria. It is known as Cilela in Hausa, and it is also known as Dakarkari, because it is spoken by the Dakarkari people[2][3]

  1. ^ Lela at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. ^ Blench, Roger (2012). "The Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria" (PDF). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.
  3. ^ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.

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