Ijo

[ee-joh]

noun, plural I·jos, (especially collectively) I·jo for 1.

a member of an indigenous people of the Niger delta in southern Nigeria.
the Niger-Congo language of the Ijo.

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Also Ijaw.

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I carefully questioned the head boy of the Ijo boys all about this bird that had given me so much trouble.
West African studies
Mary Henrietta Kingsley