Edo (language)
Edo | ||
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Spoken in |
Nigeria | |
speaker | 1,000,000 | |
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Official status | ||
Other official status in | Nigeria (National Language) | |
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ISO 639 -1 |
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ISO 639 -2 |
am |
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ISO 639-3 |
am |
Edo ( proper spelling Ẹ̀dó ), also Bini (Benin) is a Niger-Congo language that is spoken by the Edo people in central Nigeria .
Edo was the official language of the Kingdom of Benin and is still spoken by around 1 million people today.
She belongs to the group of edoid languages named after her and is their most important representative.