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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...
- Proto-
Yoruboid is the
reconstructed common ancestor of the
Yoruboid languages, a
subgroup of the Volta-Niger languages. It was
likely spoken in what is...
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longer a
vernacular for them and
fluency is not required. As the prin****l
Yoruboid language,
Yoruba is most
closely related to the
languages Itsekiri (spoken...
- occurring. Proto-
Yoruboid *sì →
Igala hì, Proto-Edekiri *sè → Owe hè,
Olukumi hè,
Ikale hè "to cook" (vs.
Standard Yoruba sè) Proto-
Yoruboid *è-so → Igala...
- Ishekiri, or Itsekhiri) are one of the
Yoruboid subgroup of Nigeria's
Niger Delta area, They
speak a
Yoruboid language and can be
found in
Delta State...
- speakers); the
Yoruboid languages Ulukwumi and Mokole; Yoruba, by far the
largest of the
cluster with
about 55
million speakers.
Yoruboid languages v t...
- The
Itsekiri language is a
major branch of the
Yoruboid group of languages,
which as a group, is a key
member of the Volta–Niger sub-family of the Niger–Congo...
- Güldemann (2018). The
Defoid language group consists of
three branches,
Yoruboid,
Akoko and Ayere-Ahan. Pozdniakov,
Konstantin (31
August 2018). The numeral...
- of
languages for each
branch in parentheses):[according to whom?] The
Yoruboid languages and
Akoko were once
linked as the
Defoid branch, but more recently...
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performed by the adults. In Benin, Nigeria, Togo, and Ghana,
mainly among the
Yoruboid and Gbe (Tadoid) peoples,
Legba is
viewed as a
young and
virile trickster...
