Edo (language)

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Edo

Spoken in

Nigeria
speaker 1,000,000
Linguistic
classification
Official status
Other official status in NigeriaNigeria Nigeria (National Language)
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

-

ISO 639 -2

am

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.

See also