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  "lead": "The Kyoli or Cori (Chori) language is a Plateau language spoken in Southern Kaduna State, Nigeria.",
  "body": "The Kyoli or Cori (Chori) language is a Plateau language spoken in Southern Kaduna State, Nigeria. ==Overview== It is spoken in the northeast of Nok in Jaba Local Government Area (LGA), Kaduna State. The speakers prefer to spell the name of their language as Kyoli, which is pronounced or . The ethnic group is referred to as kwoli. There are about 7,000-8,000 Kyoli speakers living in the two village clusters of Hal-Kyoli and Bobang. Bobang is the cultural center of the Kyoli-speaking area. Bobang village cluster consists of the five hamlets of Bobang, Fadek, Akoli, Hagong, and Nyamten. Hal-Kyoli village is situated by itself. All of the Kwoli villages surround the foot of Egu-Kyoli Hill, which rises more than 240 meters above the villages. ==Tone== Cori is known for having six distinct levels of tone, too many to transcribe using the International Phonetic Alphabet, which allows five. However, there are only three underlying tones: 1 ( ), 4 ( ), and 6 ( ), which are all that need to be written for literacy. Most cases of Tone 2 ( ) are a result of tone sandhi, with 4 becoming 2 before 1. Tones 3 ( ) and 5 ( ) can be analysed as contour tones, with underlying realised as and realised as . In order to transcribe the surface tones without numerals (which are ambiguous), an extra diacritic is needed, as is common for four-level languages in Central America: 1 ( ) 2 ( ) 3 ( ) 4 ( ) 5 ( ) 6 ( ) ==Numerals== Kyoli numerals in different dialects: ==References== ==Further reading== A Sociolinguistic Profile of the Kyoli (Cori) [cry Language of Kaduna State, Nigeria] Dihoff, Ivan (1976). Aspects of the tonal structure of Chori. Doctoral dissertation, University of Wisconsin.",
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