Ondo State Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Ethnic groups== The ethnic composition of Ondo State consists largely of [[Yoruba people|Yoruba]] subgroups of the [[Idanre]], [[Akoko]], [[Akure]], [[Ikale]], [[Ilaje]], Ondo, and [[Owo]] peoples. [[Ijaw people]], such as the [[Apoi]] and [[Arogbo tribe|Arogbo]] populations inhabit the southeastern swamps close to the Edo state border. A small population of people speak a variant of the [[Yoruba language]] similar to the [[Ife]] dialect in [[Oke-Igbo]] town close to the Osun state border.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BiAEvKgVOmAC&q=The+ethnicity+of+Ondo+State&pg=PA149|title=Federal Solutions to Ethnic Problems: Accommodating Diversity|isbn=9780415781619|access-date=June 19, 2015|last1=Anderson|first1=Liam D.|year=2013}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page