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Demographics

According to Blench (2016),Blench, Roger. 2016
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/ref> Zora (also called Chokobo) is spoken by 19 speakers, in some two hours drive from

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. The speakers are all over 60 years and rarely talk to one another, since they are spread across 10 settlements. The morphology and phonology have been highly eroded as well.

References

Sources

*Blench, Roger
Zora: a highly endangered East Kainji language of Northern Nigeria
Languages of Nigeria Endangered Niger–Congo languages East Kainji languages {{Kainji-lang-stub