Atlantic-Congo · ISO 639-3 bin
Bini Language Ẹdo
Bini is an Atlantic-Congo language spoken by about 2.5 million people in 2 countries. It is written in the Latin script.
Where Bini is spoken
- Official language
- Regional official
- Spoken by 10%+
- 1–10%
- Smaller communities
About the Bini language
Bini (Ẹdo) is spoken by about 2.5 million people, which makes it the 279th most spoken language in the world — just behind Beja (2.5 million) and ahead of West Albay Bikol (2.5 million). It belongs to the Atlantic-Congo language family and, more precisely, to the Central Plains Edoid group within the Benue-Congo branch.
Where is Bini spoken?
Bini is used in 2 countries. The largest communities live in Nigeria (1.7 million) and Benin (1.0 million).
Share of the population that speaks Bini: Nigeria 0.7% (1.7 million) and Benin 6.8% (1.0 million).
Bini is not a national official language anywhere.
Writing system and status
Bini is written in the Latin script. It is a safe, widely transmitted language: children still learn it at home as their first language.
Its closest relatives in the same branch of the family are Urhobo, Swahili, Swahili, Yoruba, Igbo, Lingala and 2 more.
ISO codes: ISO 639-3 bin.
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Data: Languages of the World dataset (MIT) — ISO 639-3, Glottolog (CC BY 4.0), Unicode CLDR, Google LinguaMeta (CC BY 4.0) and Wikidata; country lists: samayo/country-json (MIT). Speaker numbers include first- and second-language speakers where sources report them.