Opolopo awon eniyan ti won n so ede TIV wa lati Ipinle Benue.Awon itokasi  R.C.Abraham, A Dictionary of the Tiv Language, Government of Nigeria 1940, republished by Gregg Press Ltd., Farnborough, Hants., England 1968.. 
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