Edekiri languages explained

Edekiri
Region:	Togo, Benin and Nigeria
Familycolor:	Niger-Congo
Fam2:	Atlantic–Congo
Fam3:	Volta–Niger
Fam5:	Yoruboid
Child1:	Ede
Child2:	Itsekiri
Child3:	Yoruba
Glotto:	edek1238
Glottorefname:	Edekiri

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.

See also

• Yoruboid languages