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| has gloss | eng: Yoruboid is a group of languages composed of Igala, a language spoken in central Nigeria, and the Edekiri group, the members of which are spoken in a band across Togo, Benin and southwestern Nigeria. The name Yoruboid derives from its most widely spoken member, Yoruba, which has more than 20 million speakers. Another well-known Yoruboid language is Itsekiri (Nigeria, 500,000 speakers). The Yoruboid group is a branch of Defoid, which itself is a branch of the Benue-Congo subfamily of the Niger-Congo language family. |
| lexicalization | eng: Yoruboid languages |
| lexicalization | eng: Yoruboid language |
| subclass of | e/Benue-Congo |
| subclass of | e/Volta-Niger languages |
| subclass of | (noun) a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout the text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written" language, linguistic communication |
| has instance | e/Edekiri languages |
| has instance | e/Igala language |
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| Breton | |
| has gloss | bre: Ur skourr eus ar yezhoù benouek-kongoek, renket d'o zro e-touez ar yezhoù nijerek-kongoek eo ar yezhoù yoroubek (yoruboid), ennañ 13 yezh, en o zouez an ingaleg hag ar yoroubeg |
| lexicalization | bre: Yezhoù yoroubek |
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| lexicalization | por: Línguas iorubóides |
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| has subclass | e/Edekiri languages |
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