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Countries

Countries
Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

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
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Alphabets
36 18

Phonology

How Many Vowels
8 5

How Many Consonants
28 18

Scripts
Latin

Writing Direction
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks 18

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 24

Dialect 2
Ngwa

Where They Speak
Nigeria

How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00 59

Dialect 3
Not present

Where They Speak
-

How Many People Speak
24.00 82

Total No. Of Dialects
20 18

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
25.00 million 40

Speaking Population
0.09 % 57

Native Speakers
25.00 million 32

Second Language Speakers
24.00 million 28

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
57 52

Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
ig

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

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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.

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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.

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