Proto-Yoruboid language

Proto-Yoruboid
Reconstruction ofYoruboid languages
RegionConfluence of the Niger and Benue rivers
Erac. 2500 BCE – c. 300 BCE
Reconstructed
ancestor
Proto-Defoid; Proto-YEAI; Proto-Niger–Congo

Proto-Yoruboid is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Yoruboid languages, a subgroup of the Volta-Niger languages. It was likely spoken in what is now Nigeria and the confluence of the Niger River and Benue River. The ancestors of the Proto-Yoruboid speakers lived in the southern part of the Niger River Valley region for over three millennia. It split off from its neighbors in Volta-Niger about 3,000 years ago during a time of westward migration.

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