Cabe
| Ede Cabe | ||
|---|---|---|
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Spoken in |
Benin | |
| speaker | 80,000 (2006) | |
| Linguistic classification |
Niger-Congo
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-3 |
cbj |
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The Ede Cabe (ISO 639-3: cbj) is a yoruboid language and a defoid language spoken by a total of 80,000 people in the Beninese provinces of 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, as well as the Ulukwumi and Yoruba in Nigeria. The language is most closely related to the Ife , an Ede language. These languages all in turn belong to the Benue-Congo language family . The language has a lexical similarity of 76% with the Yoruba .
The language is used in everyday life but not in school or government. Like the other national languages of Benin, it has no official status. The speakers therefore mostly use the Beninese official language, French .