Isoko
名词 n.
专有名词
英文释义
名词 n.
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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; […]
专有名词
- 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.
词源
词源 1
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.
词源 2
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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