单词 | ogoni |
释义 | Ogonin.adj. A. n. 1. A member of an African people inhabiting a small territory in Rivers State, south-eastern Nigeria. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of East Africa > [noun] > other peoples Galla1625 Afar1845 Nyasa1848 Kikuyu1849 Barotse1851 Makololo1853 Oromo1868 Baganda1872 Acholi1874 Makonde1883 Kamba1885 Luo1886 Ogoni1888 Turkana1894 Lango1902 Sebei1902 Suk1902 Wanderobo1902 Sapiny1909 Sandawe1924 Kipsigis1931 Pokot1937 1888 Times 30 Oct. 5/7 The hostile Ogonis attacked the allies of the Okrikans while they were returning from the markets. 1906 A. G. Leonard Lower Niger i. ii. 18 From Opobo to Bonny, along the coast, are the Andoni..; and between them and the Ibo to the north, another small tribe called Ogoni are wedged in. 1947 Man 47 81 In the summer of 1930 the Nigerian Government called for a report on the Ogoni. 1993 Hispanic Outlook in Higher Educ. (Nexis) 5 June 30 The Ogoni have been agitating for the alleviation of their environmental complaints, which they maintain have fallen on deaf governmental ears. 1996 Big Issue 2 Sept. 12/4 For two years a few of us had been trying to bring to the media's attention the marginalization of the Ogonis. 2. Any of a group of closely related Niger–Congo languages of the Ogoni, the largest of which is Kana; the group as a whole.The group belongs to the Delta-Cross section of the Cross River branch of East Benue-Congo languages. Π 1914 N. W. Thomas Specimens Langs. S. Nigeria 9 Ibibio or Efik was used for Ogoni, Andoni, Abini.., Akpet, Nkpani, Ugep. 1930 Kpa Le Tam Mak (Brit. & Foreign Bible Soc.) 2 (title) St. Mark in Ogoni (Tentative edition). 1972 E. A. Nida Bk. Thousand Tongues (ed. 2) 338/2 Ogoni, or Kana, is spoken with dialectal variations by about 150,000 people in Calabar Province of Nigeria. 1996 B. F. Grimes Ethnologue (ed. 13) 352 Koana (Kana, Khana, Ogoni). B. adj. (attributive). Of, relating to, or designating the Ogoni. ΘΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Africa > peoples of East Africa > [adjective] > other peoples Galla1710 Afar1845 Makololo1857 Baganda1872 Acholi1874 Makonde1876 Ogoni1888 Oromo1890 Turkana1894 Lango1902 Sebei1902 Suk1902 Luo1909 Sandawe1925 Wanderobo1935 Pokot1951 1888 Times 30 Oct. 5/7 Last September a section of the Ogoni tribe..appealed to the King and chiefs of Okrika to intervene in a dispute. 1932 P. A. Talbot Tribes Niger Delta Index 348/1 Ogoni play. 1965 Man 65 94 The Bambara fetish..is splendidly conceived, as is..the solid little Ogoni mask. 1996 Times 20 May 8/4 Nineteen Ogoni activists..have been thrown into solitary confinement for smuggling a letter highlighting their appalling conditions out of Port Harcourt prison. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1888 |
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