Mokole (or Mokollé, Mokwale, Monkole, Féri) is a Yoruboid language spoken in the villages surrounding the town of Kandi in Benin. Its speakers constitute...

Collines and Zou Departments. Other important languages are Yoruba, Bariba, Mina, Dendi, Mokole and Yom. Benin implemented a National Literacy and Adult Education...

Mokole may be, Mokole language Mokole language (Benin) One of the Mokole languages of Guinea and Sierra Leone Jean-Marie Mokole Mokele-mbembe This disambiguation...

Mande Susu–Yalunka Manding–Jɔgɔ Jogo languages Manding–Vai Vai–Kono Manding–Mokole Manding languages Mokole languages Southwest Mande (Mende, Kpelle, etc...

Benin (/bɛˈniːn/ ben-EEN, /bɪˈniːn/ bin-EEN; French: Bénin [benɛ̃] , Fon: Benɛ, Fula: Benen), officially the Republic of Benin (French: République du Bénin)...

2 million second-language speakers. As a pluricentric language, it is primarily spoken in a dialectal area spanning Nigeria, Benin, and Togo with smaller...

Tula-Waja languages. The Kwa languages are represented by the Gun group in the extreme southwest, which is affiliated to the Gbe languages in Benin and Togo...

speakers); the Yoruboid languages Ulukwumi and Mokole; Yoruba, by far the largest of the cluster with about 55 million speakers. Yoruboid languages v t e...

agriculture in Northern Benin, Alibori department 12% Mokole Yoruba, INSAE 2013". 28 September 2021. "People groups: Yoruba language cluster". 1 September...

Fon (5 million, mainly in Benin). The Gbe languages were traditionally placed in the Kwa branch of the Niger–Congo languages, but more recently have been...

surrounding villages are of the Bariba people in south and west, and the Mokole Yoruba in the north, who fled the wars of the foundation of the Oyo Empire...

correspondence between the Yoruba and Benin kingdoms. In the year 1897, Major Roupell, a British officer in Benin wrote; "The country is entirely Yoruba...

the most important languages of southern Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and southeast Ghana: Yoruba, Igbo, Bini, and Gbe. These languages have variously been...

The number of languages natively spoken in Africa is variously estimated (depending on the delineation of language vs. dialect) at between 1,250 and 2...

relationship is uncertain. The neighbouring Volta–Niger branch of Nigeria and Benin is sometimes called "West Benue–Congo", but it does not form a united branch...

(Chichewa/ChiNyanja) Venda Kalanga Map 1 shows Bantu languages in Africa and map 2 a magnification of the Benin, Nigeria and Cameroon area, as of July 2017.[citation...

250 languages, with some accounts reporting around 600. These include 55 Afro-Asiatic languages, two Nilo-Saharan languages, four Ubangian languages, and...

linkage of West African languages, accounting for roughly 110–120 million speakers (late 2010s). Gbe: spoken in Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria, of which...

African Languages and Linguistics, 14. Berlin/New York: Foris Publications & Garome, Bénin: Labo Gbe (Int). Chan, Eugene (2019). "The Niger-Congo Language Phylum"...

Miyobe or Soruba is an unclassified Niger-Congo language of Benin and Togo. Güldemann (2018) notes that Miyobe cannot be securely classified within Gur...

northwestern Benin, and southwestern Niger. A few Gur languages are spoken in Nigeria. Additionally, a single Gur language, Baatonum, is spoken in Benin and in...

central Nigeria, and the Edekiri group spoken in a band across Togo, Ghana, Benin and southern Nigeria, including the Itsekiri of Warri Kingdom. The name...

a Yoruba empire in West Africa. It was located in present-day southern Benin and western Nigeria (including the South West zone and the western half...

and Benin, and covers a total land area of 142,114 km2 (54,871 sq mi). Of this land area, 106,016 km2 (74.6%) lies within Nigeria, 18.9% in Benin, and...

Yoruba kingdoms and the broader region of West Africa and the Bight of Benin, with a strong cavalry, trade system, and political organization. The Alaafin...

The name Edoid derives from its most widely spoken member, Edo, the language of Benin City, which has 2 million native and secondary speakers. The following...

Lajemisin), who was a grandson of the legendary founder of the Oyo Empire and Benin Empire, Oranmiyan. Oranmiyan was the son or grandson of the first Ooni of...

Ìbọ̀lọ́ Ìdàáṣà (Ìdàáshà) Ìgbómìnà Ifẹ̀ Ìjẹ̀bú Ìjẹ̀ṣà Ìkálẹ̀ Ìlàjẹ Ìshà (Ìṣà) Mọkọ́lé Ọ̀họ̀rí (Ìjẹ) Okun Òǹkò (Òkè-Ògùn) Ọ̀ghọ̀ Ọ̀wọ́rọ̀ Òwu Ọ̀yọ́ Rẹ́mọ Ùdoko...

Nigeria. Their dialects are generally classified in the Northeast Yoruba language (NEY) grouping. They are collectively called "Okun", which in Okun dialects...

The Yoruba of West Africa (Benin, Nigeria and Togo) are responsible for a distinct artistic tradition in Africa, a tradition that remains vital and influential...