{{Short description|Kainji language spoken in Nigeria}} {{Infobox language |name=Zele |altname=Jere |nativename= |states=Nigeria |region=Bassa LGA, northern Plateau State |speakers=23,000 |date=1972 |ref=e18 |familycolor=Niger-Congo |fam2=Atlantic–Congo |fam3=Benue–Congo |fam4=Kainji |fam5=East Kainji |iso3=jer |glotto=nucl1376 |glottorefname=Nuclear Jere }} {{Infobox ethnonym |person=oZele |people=aZele |language=eZele |root=Zele }} thumb|Jere men in 1880
'''Zele''' (Zelle, Jere, Jera) is an East Kainji language of Bassa LGA in northern Plateau State, Nigeria.<ref name="Blench2018">Blench, Roger M. 2018. Nominal affixing in the Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria. In John R. Watters (ed.), ''East Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs'', 59–106. Berlin: Language Science Press. {{doi|10.5281/zenodo.1314323}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} *Blench, Roger. 2010. [https://www.academia.edu/7160278/Plural_verbs_in_the_languages_of_Central_Nigeria Plural verbs in the languages of Central Nigeria].
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Category:East Kainji languages Category:Languages of Nigeria
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