Ede language

Spoken in

Niger - Congo

  • Atlantic - Congo Volta - Niger Defoide languages Yoruboide languages Edekiri Tschetti

Cbj

The Ede Cabe (ISO 639-3: cbj ) is a yoruboide language and a defoide language that is spoken by a total of 80,000 people in the provinces of Benin Borgou and Zou.

Ede Cabe is one of the eight Ede - languages ​​that belong to the immediate subgroup Edekiri with thirteen languages ​​, and is therefore related to the Itsekiri in Nigeria, the Lukumi in Cuba, the Mokole in Benin and the Ulukwumi and the Yoruba in Nigeria. The next is the language with the Ife, Ede a language related. These languages ​​are all turn to language family of Benue - Congo languages ​​. The language has the Yoruba lexical similarity of 76%.

The language is used in daily life, but not at school or in the government. She has like the other national languages ​​of Benin no official status. The speaker therefore mostly use the Beninese official language is French.

Atlantic languages Mokole language (Benin) Ulukwumi language Yoruba language Ifè language Languages of Benin
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