isoko means 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. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
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.
name
- 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.
noun
- 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; […]”