title: Edekiri languages
text: # Edekiri languages
  
  The Edekiri languages are spoken in a band across Togo, Benin and Nigeria. The group includes:
  
  * the Ede dialect cluster, including Ife;
  * Itsekiri (Nigeria, up to 1 million speakers);
  * the Yoruboid languages Ulukwumi and Mokole;
  * Yoruba, by far the largest of the cluster with about 55 million speakers.
  