The Edekiri is a group of languages in the Volta-Niger branch of the Niger-Congo family. The Niger-Congo language family, and by extension the Edekiri languages, formed a cohesive linguistic unit as far back as the end of the Upper Paleolithic 11,000 years ago.
The group includes: the Ede dialect cluster, including Ife Itsekiri Lucumi language, which is spoken in Cuba the Nago languages the Yoruboid languages Ulukwumi and Mokole Yoruba, with approximately 40 million speakers in Nigeria and several million more in the diaspora. See also Yoruboid languages
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