alternate_names: "Zùl, Bi Zule, Mbarmi, Barma, Zulawa, Zull",
lang_description: "",
classification: "Afro-Asiatic; Chadic; West Chadic
",
dialect_varieties: "",
public_comment: ""The Zul language is part of the Polci cluster... It is said to be the same as (m)Barma or Mbaram in older sources, but Mbaram is probably a related dialect." (Blench 2014)",
private_comment: null,
source_id:89800,
speakers: [
{
id:30514,
code_id:10464,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "~4,000",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: ""Zul was reported in older sources to be dying out and to have very few speakers. However, this appears to be wrong. There are both more speakers and the language more lively than previously thought. The number of speakers varies considerably from one source to another, but is probably about 4000."",
private_comment: null,
source_id:98493,
preferred:1,
},
{
id:30515,
code_id:10464,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "2,400",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "1971",
public_comment: ""2,400 (LA 1971)"",
private_comment: null,
source_id:98321,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:30516,
code_id:10464,
speaker_number: null,
speaker_number_text: "",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: "",
private_comment: null,
source_id:98624,
preferred: 0,
},
{
id:30517,
code_id:10464,
speaker_number: "1000-9999",
speaker_number_text: "~2,000",
second_language_speakers: "",
semi_speakers: "",
children: "",
young_adults: "",
older_adults: "",
elders: "",
ethnic_population: "",
date_of_info: "",
public_comment: ""The about 2,000 Zull people live in Toro LGA."",