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Edo (English: / ˈɛdoʊ /, [2] West African English: /ˈedo/; [3] Ẹ̀dó), colloquially and often referred to as Bini, is the language spoken by the Edo ethnic group in Edo State, Nigeria. Benin is not a language but, rather, the name of the capital city, and the name of the Kingdom. Edo language is the native tongue of the Edo people and ...
Northwestern. Southwestern. Language codes. Glottolog. edoi1239. The Edoid languages are a few dozen languages spoken in Southern Nigeria, predominantly in the former Bendel State. [1] The name Edoid derives from its most widely spoken member, Edo, the language of Benin City, which has 30 million native and secondary speakers.
The Edo people, also referred to as the Benin people, [3] are an Edoid-speaking ethnic group. [4] They are prominently native to seven southern local government areas of Edo State, Nigeria. They are speakers of the Edo language and are the descendants of the founders of the Benin Kingdom, Ogiso Igodo. [5]
Edo literatureincludes both written and oral works in the Edo languageby the Edo peopleof Nigeria. It has its origins in precolonial timesand has evolved over time. The literature is a reflection of Edo culture and it includes various periods, genres, and authors. It is rooted in traditional expressions such as brass-casting, wood carving, and ...
Urhobo is a South-Western Edoid language [2] spoken by the Urhobo people of southern Nigeria. [3][4] It is from the Delta and Bayelsa States. [5] Some part of urhobo like the okpe king was related to the oba.it was said that the oba sent a son to rule over some kingdoms after the urhobo where invaded by the Benin soldiers and the fulani.
Ido. Ido (/ ˈiːdoʊ / [3]) is a constructed language derived from a reformed version of Esperanto, and similarly designed with the goal of being a universal second language for people of diverse backgrounds. To function as an effective international auxiliary language, Ido was specifically designed to be grammatically, orthographically, and ...
Southwestern Edoid languages. According to the language family tree classification by Ethnologue, Okpe, Urhobo and Uvwie, alongside Eruwa and Isoko, make up the five Southwestern Edoid languages of the Benue-Congo group. Quoting Johnstone (1993), Ethnologue puts the population of Urhobo people at 546,000, Okpe 25,400 (2000) and Uvwie 19,800 (2000).
e. The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), also known as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai), is the period between 1603 and 1868 [1] in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo.