Nupe
/ˈnuːpeɪ
/noun (plural same or Nupes)
1A member of a people of central Nigeria.Other large ethnic groups include the Ibibio, the Ijaw, the Kanuri, the Nupe, and the Tiv....
- Judith Perani and Norma H. Wolff have a combined total of over fifty years of research experience focused on the Nupe, Yoruba, and Hausa.
2 [mass noun] The Benue-Congo language of the Nupe, with over 1 million speakers.William Fagg was a man of lists, and many appear in the notebooks: lists of words for ironworking and tools, written in Hausa and Nupe and with their English translation; of purchases and prices (in shillings); of Igbo mask names....
- English is the official language; however, Yoruba, Ibo, and Hausa represent the principal languages, joined by Kanuri, Fulani, Nupe, Tiv, Edo, Ijaw and Ibibio.
adjective
Relating to the Nupe or their language.R. E. Bradbury points out that the ‘multiplicity of settlement in the relatively small Ekperi tribe is due to scattering, during the last century, by Nupe raiders’....
- This discussion reveals the factors that contributed to the decline of Hausa and Nupe cloth by the end of the century in contrast to Yoruba aso-oke cloth, which was as vital as ever.
- For most of the 1870's Bishop Crowther established a formal alliance with the rulers of the Nupe kingdom as the southern outpost of the Sokoto Caliphate which was ostensibly being erected on the basis of a slave economy.
Origin
The name of a former kingdom at the confluence of the Niger and Benue Rivers in West Africa.
Rhymes
- automixis
- automize
- automobile
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- automobilia
- automobiling
- automobilised
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- automobilized
- automorph
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- automorphism
- automotive
- autonoetic
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- autonomic
- autonomical
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- autonomic nervous system
- autonomise