Edo - Bini
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Categories: Languages, Nigeria
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- 1. Classification / Classification
- 2. Where Spoken / Localisation géographique
- 3. Number of Speakers / Nombre de locuteurs
- 4. Dialect Survey / Enquête de dialecte
- 5. Usage / Utilisation
- 6. Orthography / Orthographe
- 7. Use in ICT / Utilisation dans les TIC
- 8. Localisation resources / Ressources pour localisation
- 9. Comments / Remarques
- 10. References / Références
Ẹ̀dó - Bini
1. Classification / Classification
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
2. Where Spoken / Localisation géographique
It is spoken in Edo State, Nigeria. (Webbook)
3. Number of Speakers / Nombre de locuteurs
1,000,000 (1999 WA) (Ethnologue)
4. Dialect Survey / Enquête de dialecte
No significant regional dialect differences have been noted. Wescott (personal communication, 1986) reports that there are perceptible differences in "age dialects." (Webbook)
5. Usage / Utilisation
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)
6. Orthography / Orthographe
6.1 Status / Statut
Latin-based script using extended characters including ẹ and ọ (tone marks would require combining diacritics for these characters).
6.2 Sample Alphabet / Alphabet exemple
Alphabet as reported by Hartell (1993) and presented in Systèmes alphabétiques: http://sumale.vjf.cnrs.fr/phono/AfficheTableauOrtho2N.php?choixLangue=e%CC%A3do+%28bini%29
Sample text on the "Language Museum" site: http://www.language-museum.com/e/edo.htm
7. Use in ICT / Utilisation dans les TIC
7.1 Fonts / Polices
Fonts with extended Latin ranges would be necessary.
7.2 Keyboards / Claviers
Keyboard Layouts
Production Keyboards
Lancor's "KỌNYIN" keyboard for Windows includes all needed characters for Edo - http://www.konyin.com/
7.3 Content on computers & internet / Contenu en informatique et sur l'Internet
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
7.4 Localized software / Logiciels localisés
None known of.
7.5 Language codes / Codes de langue
- ISO 639-1: -
- ISO 639-2: bin
- ISO 639-3: bin
7.6 Other / Autre
The "Edo Nation" site http://www.edo-nation.net/ has a section on the Edo language (see left column; text appears to be in outdated 8-bit font)
8. Localisation resources / Ressources pour localisation
8.1 Individuals (experts) / Individuelles (experts)
8.2 Institutions / Institutions
Companies:
- Lancor Technologies, Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria
8.3 On the internet / Sur la toile
- Latin & diacritic character picker http://people.w3.org/rishida/scripts/pickers/latin/
9. Comments / Remarques
10. References / Références
Dwyer, David (1997), Webbook of African Languages, http://africa.isp.msu.edu/afrlang/hiermenu.html (page on "Edo (Bini)," http://africa.isp.msu.edu/afrlang/Edo-root.html )
SIL International, Ethnologue: Languages of the World, "Edo," http://www.ethnologue.com/language/bin
SIL International, "ISO 639 Code Tables," http://www-01.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," https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_language
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