Edekiri languages

Edekiri languages

Infobox Language family
name=Edekiri
region=Togo, Benin and south-western Nigeria
familycolor=Niger-Congo
fam2=Atlantic-Congo
fam3=Volta-Congo
fam4=Benue-Congo
fam5=Defoid
fam6=Yoruboid
child1=Ede
child2=Itsekiri
child3=Yoruba

The Edekiri languages are spoken in a band across Togo, Benin and Nigeria. The group includes the Ede language cluster (including Ede Ica, Ede Cabe, Ife, Ede Ije, Ede Nago), Itsekiri (Nigeria, 500,000 speakers), Igala (Nigeria, 1,000,000 speakers) and Yoruba, by far the largest of the cluster with about 20 million speakers.


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