%0 Journal Article 
%A Lewis, Demola
%T Deciphering Aborigines and Migrants from Cognation and Topography in North-Western Edo
%D 2015
%@ 1889-5425
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/22658
%X The prehistory of North-Western Edo (N.W.E1), Nigeria is laced
with frequent drifts of population, consequent contact and subsequent
lexical diffusion. There are speakers of twenty four odd
North Edoid languages dispersed around the N.W.E. southerly
plains of Owan and northerly hills of Akoko-Edo. This paper
sketches prehistoric patterns of migration and aborigine settlement
of North Edoid populations as gleaned from vocabulary cognation
percentages and geographical variables. Three aborigine axes were
identified: Okpella, North Ibie and Somorika, situated in hilly
Akoko-Edo; and the pair of Uokha and Ghotuo are fingered as
early Bini migrants into plain land Owan. The remainder groups
have alternated fleeting uphill drafts during pestilence with downhill
migration at pacific times. It was shown that the terrain was a
capital factor in making Akoko-Edo a migrant’s magnet and epicentre
of linguistic diversity.

%K Prehistory
%K Aborigine
%K Migrant
%K Cognation percentages
%K Geographical variables
%K North-Western Edo (Nigeria)
%K Prehistoria
%K Aborígenes
%K Migrantes
%K Variables geográficas
%K Noroeste de Edo (Nigeria)
%K Porcentajes de cognados
%K Lingüística
%K Linguistics
%K Sociología
%K Sociology
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala