Edekiri languages

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Edekiri
Geographic
distribution:		 Togo, Benin and south-western Nigeria
Genetic
classification:		 Niger-Congo
 Atlantic-Congo
  Volta-Congo
   Benue-Congo
    Defoid
     Yoruboid
      Edekiri
Subdivisions:
Ede
Itsekiri

The Edekiri languages are spoken in a band across Togo, Benin and Nigeria. The group includes the Ede language cluster (including Ede Ica, Ede Cabe, Ife, Ede Ije, Ede Nago), Itsekiri (Nigeria, 500,000 speakers), Igala (Nigeria, 1,000,000 speakers) and Yoruba, by far the largest of the cluster with about 20 million speakers.

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