Edekiri languages

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.
Edekiri
Geographic
distribution		Togo, Benin and Nigeria
Linguistic classificationNiger–Congo?
  • Atlantic–Congo
    • Volta–Niger
      • yeai
        • Yoruboid
          • Edekiri
Subdivisions
Glottologedek1238
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