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Volta-Niger languages

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The Volta-Niger languages, also known as West Benue-Congo, Kwa, or East Kwa, are a branch of the Niger-Congo language family with an estimated 70 million speakers. The branch includes the most widely spoken languages of southern Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and southeast Ghana, among them Yoruba, Igbo, Bini, and the Gbe languages.

Facts
Partially Attested
Speaker Count
70,000,000 1
The source hedges the figure with the word perhaps.
Region
Southern Nigeria, Benin, Togo and southeast Ghana 1
Sources
1. Volta-Niger languages, Wikipedia
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    with perhaps 70 million speakers
  • Lead paragraph, second sentence
    Among these are the most spoken languages of southern Nigeria, Benin, Togo, and southeast Ghana
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