Polci language

"Zul language" redirects here. Not to be confused with Zulu language.
Polci
Barawa[1]
RegionBauchi State, Nigeria
Native speakers
(22,000 cited 1995)[2]
Afro-Asiatic
Dialects
  • Zul (Mbarmi, Barma)
  • Baram (Mbaram, Barang)
  • Dir (Diir, Dra, Baram Dutse)
  • Buli
  • Langas (Nyamzak, Lundur)
  • Polci (Posa, Polshi, Palci)
  • Luri
Language codes
ISO 639-3Variously:
ldd – Luri
nzr – Dir-Nyamzak-Mbarimi
pze – Pesse
uly – Buli
zlu – Zul
Glottolognyam1284
buli1260
lund1276
polc1243
zull1239
ELPPolci
 Luri[3]
Zule[4]
PersonNya Zule
PeopleMan Zule
LanguageBi Zule

Polci (Pəlci, Posə) is an Afro-Asiatic language of Bauchi State, Nigeria. It is part of the Barawa cluster, which is in turn part of the West Chadic language family.

  1. ^ Shimizu, K. 1978: The Southern Bauchi Group of Chadic Languages: A Survey Report. In: Africana Marburgensia, Spec. iss. 25-49.
  2. ^ Luri at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Dir-Nyamzak-Mbarimi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Pesse at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Buli at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
    Zul at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  3. ^ Endangered Languages Project data for Luri.
  4. ^ Blench, Roger (2019). An Atlas of Nigerian Languages (4th ed.). Cambridge: Kay Williamson Educational Foundation.