Eastern Ijaw

E407764

Ijaw subgroup Niger Delta ethnic group ethnic subgroup

Eastern Ijaw is a subgroup of the Ijaw people and their language varieties, primarily located in the eastern Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

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All labels observed (6)

Label	Occurrences
Eastern Ijo	3
Eastern Ijaw canonical	2
Central Ijo dialect cluster	1
Eastern Ijaw groups	1
Kolokuma subgroup of the Ijaw	1
Western Ijo	1

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Ijaw subgroup ⓘ Niger Delta ethnic group ⓘ ethnic subgroup ⓘ
associatedWith	mangrove swamp environment ⓘ oil-producing communities ⓘ
country	Nigeria ⓘ
culturalIdentity	Ijaw ⓘ
culturalRegion	Niger Delta creeks and estuaries ⓘ
environment	brackish waterways ⓘ deltaic wetlands ⓘ mangrove forests ⓘ
ethnicGroupIn	Nigeria ⓘ
ethnicRelation	related to Western Ijaw groups ⓘ related to other Ijoid-speaking communities ⓘ
ethnonym	Ijaw ⓘ
geopoliticalContext	Niger Delta oil and resource politics ⓘ
hasCulturalPractice	age-grade systems ⓘ ancestor veneration ⓘ chieftaincy institutions ⓘ masquerade festivals ⓘ
hasLanguageFeature	complex verbal morphology ⓘ subject–object–verb word order (in many varieties) ⓘ tonal language ⓘ
hasReligion	Christianity ⓘ traditional Ijaw religion ⓘ
hasSettlementType	island settlements ⓘ riverine communities ⓘ
languageBranchOf	Niger–Congo languages ⓘ
languageFamily	Ijaw languages ⓘ Ijoid languages ⓘ
linguisticVarietyOf	Ijaw linguistic continuum ⓘ surface form: Ijaw language continuum
locatedIn	Niger Delta ⓘ Southern Nigeria NERFINISHED ⓘ eastern Niger Delta ⓘ
musicCulture	dance performances ⓘ drumming ⓘ
oralTradition	folksongs ⓘ praise poetry ⓘ storytelling ⓘ
partOf	Ijaw ethnic nationality ⓘ
region	coastal Niger Delta ⓘ
subgroupOf	Ijaw people NERFINISHED ⓘ
traditionalLivelihood	canoe transport ⓘ fishing ⓘ palm produce collection ⓘ small-scale farming ⓘ
usesLanguageVarieties	Eastern Ijaw dialects ⓘ

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Ijaw languages → hasSubgroup → Eastern Ijaw ⓘ

Okrika Ijaw → partOf → Eastern Ijaw ⓘ

this entity surface form: Eastern Ijaw groups

Western Ijaw → hasEthnonym → Eastern Ijaw ⓘ

this entity surface form: Western Ijo

Western Ijaw → relatedGroup → Eastern Ijaw ⓘ

Kalabari language → belongsToBranch → Eastern Ijaw ⓘ

this entity surface form: Eastern Ijo

Kolokuma language → ethnicGroup → Eastern Ijaw ⓘ

this entity surface form: Kolokuma subgroup of the Ijaw

Kolokuma language → partOf → Eastern Ijaw ⓘ

this entity surface form: Central Ijo dialect cluster

Ijoid → hasSubgroup → Eastern Ijaw ⓘ

this entity surface form: Eastern Ijo

Ijoid family → hasSubgroup → Eastern Ijaw ⓘ

this entity surface form: Eastern Ijo