The Edekiri languages are spoken in a band across Togo, Benin and Nigeria. The group includes: the Ede dialect cluster, including Ife; Itsekiri (Nigeria...

classified among the Edekiri languages, which is together with the Itsekiri and isolate Igala from the Yoruboid group of languages within the Volta–Niger...

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...

language, such as Ikale. Many of these shifts came from Proto-Yoruboid language (or its descendant language, Proto-Edekiri), and descendant languages...

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...

the most important languages of southern Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and southeast Ghana: Yoruba, Igbo, Bini, and Gbe. These languages have variously been...

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...

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)...

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...

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...