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Preferred term

binEdo  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Edo (with full diacritics, ; also called Bini (Benin)) is a Volta–Niger language spoken primarily in Edo State, Nigeria. It was and remains the primary language of the Edo people of Igodomigodo. The Igodomigodo kingdom was renamed Edo by Oba Eweka, after which the Edos refer to themselves as Oviedo child of Edo. The Edo capital was Ubinu, known as Benin City to the Portuguese who first heard about it from the coastal Itsekhiri, who pronounced it this way; from this the kingdom came to be known as the Benin Empire in the West.

Entry terms

  • Bini
  • Edo language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • bin

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • bin

ISO 639-3 code

  • bin

Notation

  • bin

In other languages

  • Édo

    French

  • bini
  • Edo

    German

  • Bini-Sprache
  • bini

    Italian

  • Lingua edo
  • bini

    Portuguese

  • Língua edo
  • bini

    Spanish

  • Idioma edo

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/bin

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