Edekiri languages
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| Edekiri | |
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| Geographic distribution: |
Togo, Benin and south-western Nigeria |
| Linguistic classification: | Niger–Congo
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| Ethnologue code: | 242-16 |
The Edekiri languages are spoken in a band across Togo, Benin and Nigeria. The group includes:
- the Ede dialecte cluster, including Ife;
- Itsekiri (Nigeria, 500,000 speakers); and
- the Yoruba languages Ulukwumi, Mokole, and Yoruba, by far the largest of the cluster with about 20 million speakers.
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