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• IPA^(key): /à.kó.kó/

Àkókó

1. TheAkoko sub-group ofYoruba
2. The Akoko dialects ofYoruba

A folk etymology states,à-(“nominalizing prefix”) +‎kókó(“reduplication ofkó"to kidnap"”), literally“The ones who were kidnapped”; This is said to come from the fact that many Àkókó settlements were raided and the people kidnapped and sold into slavery during the warring periods of the 1700s and 1800s.

• IPA^(key): /à.kó.kó/

Àkókó

1. TheAkoko sub-group ofYoruba
2. The Akoko dialects ofYoruba, comprising of the western and eastern Akoko dialects and theÀo dialect.

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