John T. Bendor-Samuel
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Executive Director, Summer Institute of Linguistics Ltd., High Wycombe, England. Editor of The Niger-Congo Languages: A Classification and Description of Africa's Largest Language Family.
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Yoruba language, one of a small group of languages that comprise the Yoruboid cluster of the Defoid subbranch of the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The other Yoruboid languages include Igala and Itsekiri. Yoruba is spoken by more than 20 million people in southwestern…
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