Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Nigeria
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
- 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
Amharic and Hebrew
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
تصبح على خير
ka chi fo
Good Evening
مساء الخير
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
صباح الخير
ụtụtụ ọma
I Love You
أحبك
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
Enuani
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
Nigeria
Where They Speak
Sudan
Nigeria
Dialect 3
Levantine
Not present
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
Not Available
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
igbo
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
Ibo
German Name
Arabisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Arabs
Igbo people
Origin
512 CE
30th Century BC
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Branch
North Arabic
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Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
Standard Igbo
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
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Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
arab1395
nucl1417
Linguasphere
12-AAC
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
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Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative
Arabic and Igbo Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Arabic and Igbo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Arabic and Igbo language. Arabic word for "Hello" is مرحبا or Igbo word for "Thank You" is dalụ. Find more of such common Arabic Greetings and Igbo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Arabic vs Igbo Difficulty
The Arabic vs Igbo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Arabic Alphabets and Igbo Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Arabic and Igbo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Arabic and Igbo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Arabic is 88 weeks while to learn Igbo time required is 52 weeks.