Urhobo is a South-Western Edoid language spoken by the Urhobo people of southern Nigeria. It is from the Delta and Bayelsa States. Urhobo has a rather...
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ethnic groups in Delta State. The Urhobos speak the Urhobo language. Their population is approximately 7 million. The Urhobo people live in a territory bounded...
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- namely, Urhobo, Ijaw and Anioma.[1] Urhobo are related in language and culture, leading to the invaders erroneously labelling the Urhobo and Isoko cultural...
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language family tree classification by Ethnologue, Okpe, Urhobo and Uvwie, alongside Eruwa and Isoko, make up the five Southwestern Edoid languages of...
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Look up Urhobo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Urhobo may refer to: Urhobo people, of Nigeria Urhobo language, their Edo language This disambiguation...
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their origins attached to the Ibo language and Urhobo language. Some 750,000 people consider themselves Isoko. Language is a mark of identity and plays...
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kingdoms that make up the Urhobo Tribe The Urhobo are the main tribes living within this area. They speak the Agbarho dialect of Urhobo, which is the target...
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The Igbe religion, popularly known as Igbe (an Urhobo word meaning dance), was founded by Ubiecha Etarakpo in 1858 and has its headquarters at 11, Egbo...
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Osanobua (category Articles containing Urhobo-language text)
Osalobua (Esan: Osenobula or Osenebra; Urhobo: Osonobruwhe or Osonobruvwe) is the name for God in the Edo language. It is also referred to as Osa, which...
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Iroko (category Articles containing Urhobo-language text)
name(also known as ọ́jị̀ in Igbo language, uloho in the Urhobo language of Southern Nigeria, and as odum in the Kwa languages of Ghana) is a large hardwood...
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Palm nut soup (category Articles containing Urhobo-language text)
palm fruit soup from Southern (the Niger Delta) Nigeria, particularly the urhobo ethnic group. This cuisine is quite different from ofe akwu, a variant found...
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Sobo language may refer to: Isoko language, an Edoid language spoken by the Isoko people in southern Nigeria Urhobo language, an Edoid language spoken...
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the popular languages spoken in Nigeria are listed as follows: Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Ibibio, Kanuri, Ijaw, Edo, Fulfude, Tiv, and Urhobo to name a few...
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Google Translate (redirect from Google Language Tools)
(Tifinagh)* BETA Tibetan* BETA Tiv* Tok Pisin* Tshiluba Tswana* Tswa Tuvan* Urhobo Urum Varhadi-Nagpuri Venda* Wolof* Yakut* Yucatec Maya* BETA Zaza Zhuang...
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Spondias mombin (category Articles containing Thai-language text)
In Nigeria, the fruit is called Ughighen in the Urhobo language, Iyeye orYeye in the Yoruba language, ngulungwu in Igbo and isada in Hausa. In Somalia...
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M. G. Ejaife (category Urhobo people)
June 1912 – 6 March 1972) was an Urhobo nationalist from Okpara Inland and the first principal of the premier Urhobo College Effurun,Uvwie. He was one...
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over 525 native languages spoken in Nigeria. The official language and most widely spoken lingua franca is English, which was the language of Colonial Nigeria...
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Delta State (category CS1 Arabic-language sources (ar))
speak a language very closely related to Yoruba but have been culturally influenced by the Edo from neighbouring Edo state, as well as the Urhobo, and Ijaw...
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The city herself is indigenous to the Uvwie people, a subgroup of the Urhobo.[citation needed] Its inhabitants are predominantly Christians of different...
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and English and has taken in loan words from neighbouring Ijo and Urhobo languages. However its basic structure, grammar and vocabulary is essentially...
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Western Region now in South-South Nigeria. The people of Ovu speak Urhobo language. Many prominent Nigerians have come from Ovu such as: Chief John Avwunuvherhi...
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is an Edoid language of Nigeria spoken by the Urhobo people. The sound system is rather conservative, and nearly the same as that of Urhobo. The vowels...
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Yoruboid people but speak a very closely related language. Their neighbouring languages are the Urhobo, the Okpe, the Edo, the Ijo, and the Mahin / Ugbo...
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Somorika Akuku Okpe South-Western Okpe Urhobo Isoko Eruwa Delta Eipe-Atisa Egene (Engenni) Degema Below is a list of language names, populations, and locations...
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other Edoid ethnic groups, such as the Esan, the Etsakọ, the Isoko and Urhobo as well as other southern ethnic groups, such as the Yoruba and the Igbo...
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Okpara Inland (category Urhobo people)
Isiokolo. The traditions of the origins and migrations of Okpara as one of the Urhobo groups is still shrouded in obscurity and uncertainty. However, Okpara claim...
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consider themselves to be authorities on standard languages, often called language academies. Language academies are motivated by, or closely associated...
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Itsekiri people (section Itsekiri language)
closely related to the Yoruba of South Western Nigeria and also close to the Urhobo people and Edo peoples. The Itsekiris traditionally refer to their land...
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Urhobo Studies Association USA Chapter regard him as one of the earliest Urhobo scholars to focus attention on the culture and history of the Urhobo People...
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