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Isoko

Isoko noun: a member of an ethnolinguistic group who inhabit the Isoko region of Delta State and Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

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.
    • 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; […]1913, Royal Geographical Society, The Geographical Journal, page 119

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.

Forms of Isoko

pluralIsoko
pluralIsokos

Origin of Isoko

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.

Words formed from Isoko

Questions about Isoko

What does Isoko mean?
Isoko means a member of an ethnolinguistic group who inhabit the Isoko region of Delta State and Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
What part of speech is Isoko?
Isoko can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of Isoko?
The plural of Isoko is Isoko.

Words near Isoko in the dictionary

  1. isokinematic
  2. isokinetic
  3. isokinetically
  4. isokinetics
  5. isokite
  6. Isoko
  7. Isokoland
  8. isokont
  9. isokontan
  10. isokonts
  11. Isokos

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