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Edo or Bini belongs to the North-Central Edo Group of Kwa. (Webbook)
Ethnologue lists the classification as: Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Edoid, North-Central, Edo-Esan-Ora
It is spoken in Edo State, Nigeria. (Webbook)
1,000,000 (1999 WA) (Ethnologue)
No significant regional dialect differences have been noted. Wescott (personal communication, 1986) reports that there are perceptible differences in "age dialects." (Webbook)
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." (Webbook)
Latin-based script using extended characters.
Alphabet as reported by Hartell (1993) and presented in Systèmes alphabétiques: http://sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr/phono/AfficheTableauOrtho2N.php?choixLangue=edo
Sample text on the "Language Museum" site: http://www.language-museum.com/e/edo.htm
Fonts with extended Latin ranges would be necessary.
Lancor's "KỌNYIN" keyboard for Windows includes all needed characters for Edo - http://www.konyin.com/
Iyen Emwen Etin ne O Kheke Omwan na ya wewe Vbe Uhunmwun oto-agbon hia (Universal Declaration of Human Rights): http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/edo.htm
None known of.
The "Edo Nation" site http://www.edo-nation.net/ has a section on the Edo language (see left column)
Companies:
Dwyer, David (1997), Webbook of African Languages, http://www.isp.msu.edu/AfrLang/hiermenu.html (page on "Edo (Bini)," http://www.isp.msu.edu/AfrLang/Edo-root.html )
SIL International, Ethnologue: Languages of the World, "Edo," http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bin
SIL International, "ISO 639 Code Tables," http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/codes.asp
U.S. Library of Congress, "ISO 639.2: Codes for the Representation of Names of Languages: Alpha-3 codes arranged alphabetically by the English name of language," http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/php/English_list.php
Wikipedia, "Edo language," http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_language
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