url=”https://okolanguage.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Oko-Eng_200-Basic-Words-1.doc” download=”all” viewer=”microsoft”] Language Name: Ọ̀kọ Alternate Names: Ogori, Osayen Location: Kogi State, Nigeria Recorded by: Dr. Ernest Akerejola Date: August 2004 Name of Speaker: Ogori community Speaker’s home village: Ogori Age of Speaker: No age discrimination Original copy has been modified Key to tone marks Tones are effective on all vowels…
About Ò̩kọ Language This website is about Ò̩kọ, the language of the Ogori and Magongo people of Kogi – a state in the Middle Belt region of Nigeria, West Africa. Ò̩kọ is a small group language, which is increasingly becoming endangered due to various socio-political reasons. The site is a product as well as a…
Òkó Speaking Communities Ogori-Magongo people are said to have descended from an adventurous prince of Ile Ife, one of the earliest settlements of the Yoruba ethnic nation. However the language of the community is said to have developed from an admixture of various languages usually referred to as ena (new language – Osheidu, 1990:15). Ò̩kọ,…
Ogori-Magongo people are said to have descended from an adventurous prince of Ile Ife, one of the earliest settlements of the Yoruba ethnic nation. However the language of the community is said to have developed from an admixture of various languages usually referred to as ena (new language – Osheidu, 1990:15). Ò̩kọ, as the language…
Ò̩kọ alphabet consists of 26 letters. These letters have been carefully worked out beginning with a phonological study of the spoken form. The principle and argument for the selection of these orthographic characters have been explained in an article first presented in 2002 to an intellectual audience of mainly linguists. The process has acknowledges earlier…