The Edekiri languages are spoken in a band across Togo, Benin and Nigeria. The group includes: the Ede dialect cluster, including Ife; Itsekiri (Nigeria...
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classified among the Edekiri languages, which is together with the Itsekiri and isolate Igala from the Yoruboid group of languages within the Volta–Niger...
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Yoruboid is a language family composed of the Igala group of dialects spoken in south central Nigeria, and the Edekiri group spoken in a band across Togo...
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Debuccalization (category Articles containing Latin-language text)
language, such as Ikale. Many of these shifts came from Proto-Yoruboid language (or its descendant language, Proto-Edekiri), and descendant languages...
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Yoruba people (category CS1 French-language sources (fr))
speakers of the Yoruba language. The number of speakers is estimated at 30 million in 2010. Yoruba is classified within the Edekiri languages, and together with...
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the most important languages of southern Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and southeast Ghana: Yoruba, Igbo, Bini, and Gbe. These languages have variously been...
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dialect continuum of Benin and Togo that is closely related to the Yoruba language. The best-known variety is Ife. Kluge (2011) includes Yoruba within Ede...
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and Proto-Edekiri (ancestor of the Ede languages including the Yoruba). The language was closely related to the ancestor of the Akoko language (Proto-Akokoid)...
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Ife in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ifè (or Ifɛ) is a Niger–Congo language spoken by some 180,000 people in Togo, Benin and Ghana. It is also known...
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Itsekiri people (section Itsekiri language)
English languages due to centuries of interaction with people from those nations. However, it remains a key branch of the Yoruboid family of languages even...
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