Isoko

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noun

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

OriginEdo isoko →
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Meanings

nounIsoko (plural Isoko or Isokos)

plural 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
  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.

Origin

  1. Edoisoko“outskirts, environs”
  2. EnglishIsoko

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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Translations

Swahili Kiisoko
  • Kiisokolanguage

Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

oikosoosikKoiso
Cite this entry
APA

Isoko. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Isoko

MLA

“Isoko.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Isoko. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Isoko,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Isoko.

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