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Igala

Igala noun: an ethnic group or tribe living mainly in southwest Nigeria.

Noun

Igala pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) An ethnic group or tribe living mainly in southwest Nigeria.

Proper noun

Igala

  1. A sub-Saharan language belonging to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family, which is closely related to Yoruba.
    • Comparative wordlists of two dialects of Yoruba with Igala.2007 February 5, Roger Blench, “The Ayere and Ahan languages of Central Nigeria and their affinities”, in rogerblench.info, archived from the original on 17 Apr 2022, page 25
  2. (historical) A precolonial West African state, founded by the Igala people and located at the eastern region of the confluence of River Niger and River Benue in the Middle Belt or North-central of Nigeria.

Origin of Igala

Borrowed from Igala Ígáláà.

Questions about Igala

What does Igala mean?
Igala means an ethnic group or tribe living mainly in southwest Nigeria.
What part of speech is Igala?
Igala can be a noun or a proper noun.

Words near Igala in the dictionary

  1. Iga
  2. Iga ware
  3. Iga wares
  4. igad
  5. Igai
  6. Igala
  7. iGaming
  8. IgAN
  9. Igang
  10. iganidipine
  11. igapo

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Igala (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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