Edekiri languages
Branch of the Yoruboid Languages
Edekiri
Geographic
distribution
Togo
,
Benin
and
Nigeria
Linguistic classification
Niger–Congo
?
Atlantic–Congo
Volta–Niger
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Yoruboid
Edekiri
Subdivisions
Ede
Itsekiri
Yoruba
Glottolog
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The
Edekiri
languages are spoken in a band across
Togo
,
Benin
and
Nigeria
. The group includes:
the
Ede dialect cluster
, including
Ife
;
Itsekiri
(Nigeria, up to 1 million speakers);
the Yoruboid languages
Ulukwumi
and
Mokole
;
Yoruba
, by far the largest of the cluster with about 55 million speakers.