• The Ijaw languages (/ˈiːdʒɔː/), also spelled Ịjọ, are the languages spoken by the Ijaw people in southern Nigeria. The Ijo languages were traditionally...
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    and early 15th centuries. In their languages, they often refer to themselves using the endonym Izon. The Izon or Ijaw People have lived in the Niger Delta...
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  • undemonstrated group of languages linking the Ijaw languages (Ịjọ) with the endangered Defaka language. The similarities, however, may be due to Ijaw influence on...
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    languages are spoken across the Niger Delta region and include Ịjọ (Ijaw), Kalabari, and the intriguing remnant language Defaka. The Ibibio language is...
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  • Ijaw may refer to: Ijaw people Ijaw languages This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Ijaw. If an internal link led you here...
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  • three small Inland Ijaw languages of Nigeria. According to Ethnologue, it is not fully intelligible with other varieties of Inland Ijaw. Oruma at Ethnologue...
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  • also known as (Central–Western) Ijo, Ijaw, Izo and Uzo, is the dominant Ijaw language, spoken by a majority of the Ijaw people of Nigeria. There are about...
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  • spoken in Nigeria are listed as follows: Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, Ibibio, Kanuri, Ijaw, Edo, Fulfude, Tiv, and Urhobo to name a few. The following is a non-exhaustive...
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    Atlantic–Congo languages. Ijoid: Ijaw, the languages of the Ijaw people (3 million as of 2011), plus the moribund Defaka language. Mande: languages of the Mandé...
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    Ijaw, and Volta–Niger (East Kwa), but kept the Ghana–Togo Mountain and Lagoon languages, as well as adding a few obscure, newly described languages....
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