Isoko

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Edo isoko (“outskirts, environs”), referring to the fact that some of the predecessors of the Isoko migrated from the Kingdom of Benin to modern-day Isokoland, and thus the name represented those who lived on the outskirts of the Benin Empire.[1]

Noun

Isoko (plural Isoko or Isokos)

  1. A member of an ethnolinguistic group who inhabit the Isoko region of Delta State and Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
    • 1913, Royal Geographical Society, The Geographical Journal‎[1], page 119:
      As far as I can tell it was due to the preaching of an African Christian, not an Isoko, who visited those parts on business during the war; […]

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Proper noun

Isoko

  1. The language spoken in the Isoko region and Niger Delta in Nigeria, by the Isoko people. It is linguistically similar to the language of the neighboring Urhobo people.

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References

  • Ikime, Obaro (2007), “Thoughts on the Isoko-Urhobo Relaations”, in History of the Urhobo people of Niger Delta‎[2], Urhobo Historical Society, →ISBN
  • James W. Welch (April 1934), “The Isoko Tribe”, in Africa: Journal of the International African Institute‎[3], volume 7, no. 2, Edinburgh University Press, pages 160-173
  1. ^ Benjamin Uwomano Okpevra, Origins of the Isoko People of South-Central Nigeria Reconsidered, University of Uyo Journal of Humanities (UUJH), Volumes 16-17, No. 1, page 146

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