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ABSTRACT
This study is based on the linguistic comparison of two different dailects of Edo language. The various dialectal variation of the Edo language was identified and their linguistic relationship to prove if all are mutually intelligible. Word list was analysed to find out if these dailects have a genetic and linguistic relationship. Effort was also made to compare the selected word list using parts of the body parts, food, nature, things, numerals, relatives, animals, professions, places and other lexical items. With these words list, cognate was used to determine the level of similarities and differences between the two dialects. In addition, we used the cognates to show the relationship that exist within these dailects, we also examined the environmental and geographical influence on the central Edo influence on the dailects that generated the slight dialectal varieties. Finally, the findings of the two dailects of Edo language show that Oredo and Oza-Aibiokunla are not separate languages but dialects of the same language due to the 72.65% degree of their similarities.
