Jili language

{{Short description|Plateau language spoken in Nigeria}}

{{distinguish|Jijili language|Jingpho language}}

{{Infobox language

|name=Jili

|nativename=Lijili

|region=Nassarawa State

|states=Nigeria

|speakers=40,000

|date=2006

|ref = e25

|familycolor=Niger-Congo

|fam2=Atlantic–Congo

|fam3=Benue–Congo

|fam4=Plateau

|fam5=South

|fam6=Jilic

|iso3=mgi

|glotto=liji1238

|glottorefname=Lijili

}}

{{infobox ethnonym|Jijili|Mijili|Lijili||Jili{{Cite book|title=An Atlas of Nigerian Languages|last=Blench|first=Roger|publisher=Kay Williamson Educational Foundation|year=2019|edition=4th|location=Cambridge}}}}

Jili (Lijili) is a Plateau language of Nigeria. It is one of several languages which go by the ambiguous name Koro.

Due to 19th-century slave raids, Jili speakers are scattered across different areas of central Nigeria.Blench, Roger M. 2018. Nominal affixes and number marking in the Plateau languages of Central Nigeria. In John R. Watters (ed.), East Benue-Congo: Nouns, pronouns, and verbs, 107–172. Berlin: Language Science Press. {{doi|10.5281/zenodo.1314325}}