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	Yoruboid languages
		Yoruboid is a group of languages comprised of Igala, a language spoken in central Nigeria, and the Edekiri group, the members of which are spoken in a band across Togo, Benin and southwestern Nigeria.
		The name Yoruboid derives from its most widely spoken member, Yoruba, which has more than 20 million speakers.
		All Yoruboid languages are tonal, with most of them having three level tones.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Yoruboid (108 words)

	Defoid
		The largest Yoruboid language is Yoruba, which is spoken in most of Oyo, Ogun, Ondo Osun, Kwara, and Lagos states; and western LGA's of Kogi State by about 20 million people.
		Other well known Yoruboid languages are Igala and Itsekiri.
		Akokoid is made up of a cluster of small languages referred to as "Arigidi" cluster in Crozier and Blench (1992).
	www.uiowa.edu /intlinet/unijos/nigonnet/nlp/defoid.htm (105 words)

	oduduwan revolution in world history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While the Yoruban people have spoken Yoruboid languages, and practiced Yorubic cultures from time immemorial, it is obvious and even logical, that some aspects of Yoruban culture are borrowed.
		So, today, the Yoruban peoples, the Yorubic culture and the Yoruboid languages stretch from the Ramos and Dodo rivers in the north western fringe of Bayelsa State to the Ga of Accra area of modern Ghana.
		One of the largest inhabitants of Egypt were Yoruboid, and it will be expected that a good percentage of their language will be yoruboid,too.
	www.dawodu.net /_Edodelta/0000006d.htm (20061 words)

	UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page
		It is also spoken in Benin, Togo, and by immigrants in the United Kingdom and the USA.
		Yoruba is one of the 12 Edekiri languages of the Yoruboid group that also includes Igala.
		The Yoruboid group belongs to the Defoid languages of the Benue-Congo group and ultimately to the Volta-Congo, and Atlantic-Congo groups of the Niger-Congo Family of 1419 languages mostly spoken in Central and South Africa.
	www.lmp.ucla.edu /Profile.aspx?LangID=22&menu=004 (1288 words)

	Vanguard -Viewpoint : Niger Delta Human Development Report: The Climate and People of Niger Delta
		The five major linguistic and cultural groups—the Ijoid, Edoid, Delta Cross, Yoruboid and Igboid—are each composed of numerous sub-groups.
		The Ijoid, who are said to have the longest settlement history in the Niger Delta, are the most complex linguistically.
		The main Yoruboid groups are the Itsekiri of Delta State, and the Ilaje and Ikale in the borderlands of Ondo State.
	www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/viewpoints/vp703082006.html (3448 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		The Kwa group of languages is a branch of Volta-Congo and ultimately Niger-Congo.
		Bennett & Sterk (1977) argued that Kwa in its original form was not a genetic unit, and proposed a reclassification in which the Yoruboid and Igboid languages are members of the Benue-Congo subfamily.
		The remaining languages are sometimes labeled New Kwa in order to avoid confusion with the old, larger Kwa family.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Kwa_languages (226 words)

	UBC Linguistics research
		This project examines phonological features examining asymmetric properties - cases where one value of a feature behaves in ways that are markedly different from the other value.
		The focus is on Yoruboid (Nigeria), Edoid (Nigeria) and Wakashan (British Columbia).
		The central hypothesis being examined is that asymmetric behaviour has its roots in constraint ranking.
	www.linguistics.ubc.ca /research.htm (3178 words)

	ope-l-0312: (OPE-L) Economies of Violence More Oil, More Blood
		The contemporary geo-strategic significance of the Niger delta has emerged from an astonishing ethnic and linguistic complexity, and from a recent history of economic and political irrelevance.
		There are five major linguistic categories (Ijoid, Yoruboid, Edoid, Igboid and Delta Cross), but each embraces a profusion of ethno-linguistic heterogeneity.
		The establishment of the Nigerian colony and the imposition of indirect rule in the early 1900s marked an end to the brief period of commercial vitality associated with the commercialisation of palm oil across the region in the 19th century.
	ricardo.ecn.wfu.edu /~cottrell/ope/archive/0312/0071.html (10343 words)

	York
		We are sharing the letters that we have written this week so that you can make this a matter of prayer as we seek to follow God's will for our lives.
		The following is a letter that we have just sent to all of our missionary personnel in the Kru, Kwa, and Yoruboid affinity group in West Africa.
		We had hoped that we would not find ourselves writing you this letter, but the moment has come when we must share with you what is happening with us.
	www.mainstreambaptists.org /letters/york.htm (4285 words)

	PanAfrLoc \| PanAfrLoc / Yoruba (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Yoruba belongs to the Yoruba Group of Kwa.
		Ethnologue lists the classification as: Niger-Congo, Atlantic-Congo, Volta-Congo, Benue-Congo, Defoid, Yoruboid, Edekiri.
		The closely related Ede language cluster has the same classification.
	www.bisharat.net /wikidoc/pmwiki.php/PanAfrLoc/Yoruba (591 words)

	Igbo's Be United {from Ikwere To Kwale} There Is Nothing Like Fake Igbo - Nairaland
		Quote from: babyosisi on August 18, 2006, 03:02 AM So from the above old article since Igbos themselves came from some other location five thousand years ago,I too am Igboid, lol.
		And Yorubas migrated from Somewhere so they are Yoruboid
		We all came from somewhere else so there is no Igbo only Igboid.
	www.nairaland.com /nigeria/topic-16220.320.html (4039 words)

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