Edo language
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| Edo | ||
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| Spoken in: | Nigeria | |
| Region: | Edo State | |
| Total speakers: | 5,000,000 | |
| Language family: | Niger-Congo Atlantic-Congo Volta-Congo Benue-Congo Edoid North-Central Edo |
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| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | bin | |
| ISO 639-3: | bin
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Edo (or, with the tone marks: Èdó, also called Bini) is a Benue-Congo language spoken in Edo State, Nigeria by approximately 5,000,000 people. It was and remains the primary language of the Bini people, descendents of the Benin Empire.
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