Edo language page

Classification and where spoken

Edo or Bini belongs to the North-Central Edo Group of Kwa and is spoken in Bendel State, Nigeria.

Number of speakers

UBS (1982) and UBS (1997) notes one million total speakers. Voegelin and Voegelin (1977) cite a figure of 100,000 first-language speakers. Herault (1981) suggests 900,000.

Usage

Edo is a lingua franca in the midwestern region of Nigeria and is also a national language. Grimes (1996) reports that it is used "in radio, television, adult, primary, and secondary education, dictionary, history text, and mother tongue authored literature."

Orthographic status

No information is available to us as of this writing.

Sets of learning materials

One set of materials appears to be sufficient.