Tiv
Americannoun
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a member of an African people living N and S of the lower Benue River in E Nigeria.
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the Benue-Congo language of the Tiv.
noun
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a member of a Negroid people of W Africa, living chiefly in the savanna of the Benue area of S Nigeria and noted by anthropologists for having no chiefs
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the language of this people, belonging to the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo family
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Mr. Ahemba is president of the Tiv Youth Organization, an umbrella body for youths of the Tiv, an ethnic group of Christian farmers from Nasarawa.
From Washington Times • Aug. 30, 2018
"Ibilin farms are wall to wall with one another," Tzachi Lipka, co-founder of Tiv Ta'am, Israel's largest producer and seller of pork, told me.
From Slate • Aug. 8, 2012
Tiv in it and escorted her protesting to a police station.
From Time Magazine Archive
Tiv raised her lorgnette and swept them with a reproving glance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ugwu did not know who the Tiv people were, but hearing the word dead made him shiver.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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