Ijo
[ ee-joh ]
/ ˈi dʒoʊ /
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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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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.
Also Ijaw.
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How to use Ijo in a sentence
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