Mokole language (Benin)

Mokole (or Mokollé, Mokwale, Monkole, Féri) is a Yoruba language spoken in the villages surrounding the town of Kandi in Benin. It's the northernmost variety of Yoruba.

Mokole
Èdè Mɔ̄kɔ́lé
Native toBenin
RegionKandi
Native speakers
(66,000 cited 1991)[1]
Niger–Congo
Language codes
ISO 639-3mkl
Glottologmoko1243[2]

References

  1. Mokole at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Mokole". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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