Yoruboid is a language family composed of the Igala group of dialects spoken in south central Nigeria, and the Edekiri languages subdivided into the Ede...

Proto-Yoruboid is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Yoruboid languages, a subgroup of the Volta-Niger languages. It was likely spoken in what is...

Proto-Chadic Proto-Omotic Proto-Niger–Congo Proto-Bantu Proto-Yoruboid Proto-Basque Proto-Northwest Caucasian Proto-Abazgi Proto-Circassian Proto-Northeast...

branches.[citation needed] Sample basic vocabulary for reconstructed proto-languages of different Atlantic-Congo branches: Mukarovsky, Hans (1976). A study...

on vernacular fluency. As the principal Yoruboid language, Yoruba is most closely related to these languages Itsekiri (spoken in the Niger Delta) and...

language, such as Ikale. Many of these shifts came from Proto-Yoruboid language (or its descendant language, Proto-Edekiri), and descendant languages...

as insufficient by Güldemann (2018). The Defoid language group consists of three branches, Yoruboid, Akoko and Ayere-Ahan. Currently, these three branches...

Mande language family, began to break up at around 7000 years BP. Its speakers would have practised a Neolithic culture, as indicated by the Proto-Niger-Congo...

Proto-Niger–Congo is the hypothetical reconstructed proto-language of the proposed Niger–Congo language family. Unlike Nilo-Saharan, the Niger–Congo language...

known. "YEAI": a large group of languages centred on Nigeria, accounting for about 100 million speakers (late 2010s) Yoruboid: 50 million speakers (2010s)...

languages in terms of number of speakers, are as follows (with number of languages for each branch in parentheses):[according to whom?] The Yoruboid languages...

of Benin), and East Kwa the languages of Nigeria. Bennett & Sterk (1977) proposed that the Yoruboid and Igboid languages belonged in Benue–Congo rather...

The Bantu languages (English: UK: /ˌbænˈtuː/, US: /ˈbæntuː/ Proto-Bantu: *bantʊ̀), or Ntu languages are a language family of about 600 languages of Central...

Volta–Congo languages have been the subject of much historical comparative linguistic debate. Casali (1995) defends the hypothesis that Proto-Volta–Congo...

display less external influences, but have some influence from Yoruboid languages. List of Proto-Gurunsi reconstructions (Wiktionary) Bodomo, Adams. 2020....

Capo's Phla–Pherá branch, and Capo adds that Tsáphɛ and Phelá have Cábɛ (Yoruboid) and E̟do respectively as substrata. This contact and intermingling of...

The Itsekiri language is a major branch of the Yoruboid group of languages, which as a group, is a key member of the Volta–Niger sub-family of the Niger–Congo...

Below is a list of Grassfields language names, populations, and locations (in Nigeria only) from Blench (2019). List of Proto-Grassfields reconstructions...

Ulukwumi, also known as Olùkùmi, is a Yoruboid language spoken by the Olukumi people of Aniocha North LGA, Delta State, Nigeria. Olùkùmi means 'my friend'...

their branches. An alternative classification of the Edoid languages by Lewis (2013:160): Proto-Edoid North-Western Okpella, North Ibie Atte, Enwa, Ikpeshi...

Other basic verbs from Marchese (1983): According to Marchese Zogbo (2012), Proto-Kru had: phonemic nasalized vowels four level tones *CVCV-(C)V and probably...

group who mainly inhabit Nigeria's Niger Delta area. They speak a Yoruboid language and can be found in Ondo, Edo and Delta State. The Itsekiri population...

languages are being spoken by over 40 million people. Below is a list of language names, populations, and locations from Blench (2019). List of Proto-Igboid...

Mprε or Mpra is an extinct language spoken in the village of Butei (8°52′N 1°15′W / 8.867°N 1.250°W / 8.867; -1.250) in central Ghana, located between...

Sample basic vocabulary for reconstructed proto-languages of different Benue-Congo branches: List of Proto-Benue-Congo reconstructions (Wiktionary) Systematic...

The Bak languages are a group of typologically Atlantic languages of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau linked in 2010 to the erstwhile Atlantic isolate Bijago...

suggests that Proto-Kordofanian can be reconstructed from the Heibanian, Talodian, Rashadian, Katloid, and Lafofa languages. His Proto-Kordofanian reconstructions...

language – Language that is at risk of going extinct Ethnologue#Language families Extinct language – Language that no longer has any first-language or...

reconstructions of the proto-Volta–Congo language, for which similar proposals have been made. The Gbe languages are tonal languages. In general, they have...

The twelve Mambiloid languages are languages spoken by the Mambila and related peoples mostly in eastern Nigeria and in Cameroon. In Nigeria the largest...