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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Nigeria
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
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1.3 National Language
Nigeria
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
Africa
1.6 Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
1.7 Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
  • Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
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36
Rank: 18 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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8
Rank: 5 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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28
Rank: 18 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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52 weeks
Rank: 12 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
kedụ
3.2 Thank You
dalụ
3.3 How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
3.4 Good Night
ka chi fo
3.5 Good Evening
mgbede ọma
3.6 Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
3.7 Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
3.8 Please
Biko
3.9 Sorry
Ndo
3.10 Bye
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
3.12 Excuse Me
ngọpụ
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Enuani
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Nigeria
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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4.2 Dialect 2
Ngwa
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Nigeria
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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1,500,000.00
Rank: 22 (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Not present
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
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20
Rank: 18 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
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25.00 million
Rank: 40 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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5.3 Native Speakers
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25.00 million
Rank: 32 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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5.3.2 Native Name
igbo
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Ibo
5.3.4 French Name
igbo
5.3.5 German Name
Ibo-Sprache
5.4 Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
5.5 Ethnicity
Igbo people
6 History
6.1 Origin
30th Century BC
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Kwa
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
6.3.3 Language Position
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
ig
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
ibo
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
ibo
7.3 ISO 639 3
ibo
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
nucl1417
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative

Know Alphabets in Igbo

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Igbo Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Igbo Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Igbo. Igbo phonology gives Igbo vowels and Igbo consonants. There are 8 vowels and 28 consonants in Igbo language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Igbo is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Igbo language is given in detail in this section.

All Igbo countries

Want to explore all Igbo countries? About Igbo language serves you with all Igbo Speaking Countries. Countries that use Igbo as official language are called as Igbo countries.

  • Countries that use Igbo as their National Language are: Nigeria.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Igbo as second language are: Igbo is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Igbo greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Igbo Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Igbo language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Igbo language.Learn Igbo greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: kedụ
  • Thank you: dalụ
  • Good Morning: ụtụtụ ọma
  • Good Evening: mgbede ọma
  • Good Afternoon: ehihie ọma

All Igbo Language Codes

Get to know all Igbo language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Igbo Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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