Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A member of an ethnolinguistic group who inhabit the Isoko region of Delta State and Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
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Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe 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.
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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- Borrowed-form mentionisokobin
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