Ife (language)
| Ife | ||
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Spoken in |
Togo , Benin , Ghana | |
| speaker | approx. 182,000 | |
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| Official language in | one of the national languages in Benin , Togo and Ghana | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
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| ISO 639-3 |
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Ife (also: Ana-Ifé , Ana , Baate , Anago , Ede Ife ) is the language of the Ife people of the same name .
The Ife live mainly in Benin , Togo and Ghana . Well-known dialects of this yoruboid language are Tschetti, Djama and Dadja.
Ife speak about 80,000 people in Benin and about 102,000 people in Togo.
In Togo, the speakers of the Ife live in the northeastern part of the Plateaux region in the prefectures of Ogou and Est-Mono. The main places of the Ife are Atakpamé , Kamina and Dadja as well as the village Ese-Ana in southern Togo. In Benin, the Ife live in the Collines Province in the Savalou sub-prefecture.
The Bible has also already been translated into Ife. There are some radio shows, films and books in Ife as well as a dictionary. There is 78 percent lexical agreement with Yoruba .