About Igbo Language | Igbo | Alphabets in Igbo

Countries

Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries

Rank: 14 (Overall)

0 46

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National Language

Nigeria

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa

Minority Language

Equatorial Guinea

Regulated By

Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture

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.

Similar To

Yoruba and Hausa Languages

Derived From

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

Rank: 18 (Overall)

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

Rank: 5 (Overall)

0 32

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How Many Consonants

Rank: 18 (Overall)

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

Rank: 2 (Overall)

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

52 weeks

Rank: 18 (Overall)

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

kedụ

Thank You

dalụ

How Are You?

kedụ ka ịmere

Good Night

ka chi fo

Good Evening

mgbede ọma

Good Afternoon

ehihie ọma

Good Morning

ụtụtụ ọma

Please

Biko

Sorry

Ndo

Bye

Kachifo

I Love You

a hụrụ m gị n'anya

Excuse Me

ngọpụ

Dialects

Dialect 1

Enuani

Where They Speak

Nigeria

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.00

Rank: 24 (Overall)

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Ngwa

Where They Speak

Nigeria

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00

Rank: 59 (Overall)

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Not present

Where They Speak

How Many People Speak

24.00

Rank: 82 (Overall)

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

Rank: 18 (Overall)

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million

Rank: 40 (Overall)

0 1200

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Speaking Population

0.09 %

Rank: 57 (Overall)

0 89

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Native Speakers

25.00 million

Rank: 32 (Overall)

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

24.00 million

Rank: 28 (Overall)

0.01 400

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Native Name

igbo

Alternative Names

Ibo

French Name

igbo

German Name

Ibo-Sprache

Pronunciation

[iɡ͡boː]

Ethnicity

Igbo people

History

Origin

30th Century BC

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Kwa

Branch

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Igbo

Language Position

Rank: 52 (Overall)

1 120

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Signed Forms

Igbo Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ibo

ISO 639 2/B

ibo

ISO 639 3

ibo

ISO 639 6

ibo

Glottocode

nucl1417

Linguasphere

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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.

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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.