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Yoruboid languages

Yoruboid is a language family composed of the Igala group of dialects spoken in south central Nigeria, and the Edekiri languages subdivided into the Ede group (which includes Yoruba) spoken in a band across Togo, Ghana, Benin and southern Nigeria, and the Itsekiri group of the Warri Kingdom in the northwestern Niger-Delta.

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Languages

IgalaEbiraEdoid languagesUrhoboOkpe
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Name

YorubaDefoidAkokoAyere-AhanIfẹ
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Subdivisions

Olukumi
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Overview

IgalaNigeriaEdekiri languagesEde groupTogo
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Early form
Undifferentiated Ede-Igala
Geographic distribution
Eastern Ghana, Central Togo, Southern, Central & Northern Benin, Western, Southern and Central Nigeria
Glottolog
yoru1244
Linguistic classification
Atlantic–CongoVolta–NigerYEAIYoruboid · Volta–NigerYEAIYoruboid · YEAIYoruboid · Yoruboid
Proto-language
Proto-Yoruboid language
Subdivisions
Igala · Edekiri

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Yoruboid languages

Nodes29
Edges28
Triples30
Avg. degree1.93
Density0.068966
Components1

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Yoruboid languages

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related to Languages · 20
Yoruboid languages → Ebira, Edo, Edoid, Igala, Ijo, Itsekiri, Mahin, Niger Delta, Niger-Benue, Nigeria, Okpe, Ondo State, The Itsekiris, Their, They, Ugbo, Urhobo, Yoruba, Yoruboid, Yoruboid-speaking
Linguistic classification · 4
Yoruboid languages → Atlantic–CongoVolta–NigerYEAIYoruboid, Volta–NigerYEAIYoruboid, YEAIYoruboid, Yoruboid
Subdivisions · 2
Yoruboid languages → Edekiri, Igala
Early form · 1
Yoruboid languages → Undifferentiated Ede-Igala
Geographic distribution · 1
Yoruboid languages → Eastern Ghana, Central Togo, Southern, Central & Northern Benin, Western, Southern and Central Nigeria
Glottolog · 1
Yoruboid languages → yoru1244
Proto-language · 1
Yoruboid languages → Proto-Yoruboid language

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languages yoruba yoruboid language igala itsekiri nigeria spoken central togo ghana benin group dialects ede defoid edekiri niger southern subdivisions

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Yoruboid languagesEarly formUndifferentiated Ede-Igala1.00infobox
Yoruboid languagesGeographic distributionEastern Ghana, Central Togo, Southern, Central & Northern Benin, Western, Southern and Central Nigeria1.00infobox
Yoruboid languagesGlottologyoru12441.00infobox
Yoruboid languagesLinguistic classificationAtlantic–CongoVolta–NigerYEAIYoruboid1.00infobox
Yoruboid languagesLinguistic classificationVolta–NigerYEAIYoruboid1.00infobox
Yoruboid languagesLinguistic classificationYEAIYoruboid1.00infobox
Yoruboid languagesLinguistic classificationYoruboid1.00infobox
Yoruboid languagesProto-languageProto-Yoruboid language1.00infobox
Yoruboid languagesSubdivisionsIgala1.00infobox
Yoruboid languagesSubdivisionsEdekiri1.00infobox
Yoruboid languagesrelated to LanguagesIgala0.60section
Yoruboid languagesrelated to LanguagesYoruboid0.60section

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