[1] The name Yoruboid derived from its most widely spoken member, Yoruba, which has around 55 million primary and secondary speakers.

Grammatically, they are isolating with a subject–verb–object basic word order and share significant degrees of both structural and lexical similarities.

They maintain a distinct identity separate from other Yoruboid people but speak a very closely related language.

* - All dialects in the Ede cluster share between 85 and 95% lexical similarity and are thus all mutually intelligible without needing different specialized literature to achieve universal understanding.

** - Itsekiri is actually most closely related to SEY (South-Eastern Yoruba), and is a divergent branch thereof, but has a different standard writing orthography.