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Isoko

The English word “Isoko” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A member of an ethnolinguistic group who inhabit the Isoko region of Delta State and Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

proper noun

  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.

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.

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