qNo reliable, or even unreliable, figures available for the number of speakers of East Kainji
languages today, but
most groups are very small and language competence is declining. It is unlikely
that there are more
than 100,000 speakers of all East Kainji languages.
qAs a consequence, from 2003, a survey of East Kainji communities has been undertaken
especially in the Jos
area, focusing on languages reported by Shimizu as severely threatened. So far data
has been
collected on the Boze [=Buji], Loro, Panawa, Sheni, Tunzu, Ziriya and Zora [=Cokobo]
languages and the
programme will try and visit all the remainder in the coming years.
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