Edoadj.n.

1890 Proc. Royal Geogr. Soc. 12 606 The following have been named to me as countries or provinces..of the kingdom of Benin, within which the Eddo language, or some dialect thereof, is spoken.

1910 N. W. Thomas Anthropol. Rep. Edo-speaking Peoples Nigeria I. i. 6 Certain words appear to be common to the Edo and other families of languages.

1937 H. Melzian Conc. Dict. Bini Lang. S. Nigeria p. vii The Bini or Edo..language, together with the Ishan..dialect,..forms the central group of the cluster of languages generally known under the same name and belonging to the Kwa group of Western Sudan languages.

1977 Language 53 861 These two sounds in Abua sound like the plain and tapped laterals of the Ẹdo languages.

2006 R. Blench Archaeol., Lang., & Afr. Past The Edo word for buffalo underwent a meaning shift to cow when cattle were introduced.

1957 Encycl. Brit. III. 410/2 They speak a homogeneous language, Edo (Bini), a name which is extended to include the more or less closely related dialects of Ishan and Kukuruku, [etc.].

1976 Nigerian Herald 21 May 2/2 4.45 News in Edo, Efik and Fulfulde.

1983 Eng. World-wide 4 17 All are classified as Kwa and fall into four groups, viz. Edo, Igbo, Ijo, and Yoruba.

2006 C. E. Kriger Cloth in W. Afr. Hist. ii. 61 The language spoken in the Benin Kingdom is now more commonly referred to as Edo, not Bini.