Cantonese and Igbo
Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Nigeria
National Language
China, Guangdong
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Hawaii
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- 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
Chinese Language
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Alphabets in
Cantonese-Alphabets.jpg#200
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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How Are You?
你好吗？
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Evening
晚上好
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
下午好
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
早上好
ụtụtụ ọma
I Love You
我爱你
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Enuani
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Nigeria
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Nigeria
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Not present
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
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Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
igbo
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Ibo
French Name
cantonais
igbo
German Name
Kantonesisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Igbo people
Origin
17th century
30th Century BC
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Niger-Congo Family
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Standard Igbo
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Igbo Sign Language
ISO 639 1
No data available
ig
ISO 639 3
No data available
ibo
Glottocode
cant1236
nucl1417
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative
All Cantonese and Igbo Dialects
Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Cantonese and Igbo dialects. Various dialects of Cantonese and Igbo language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Cantonese are spoken in different Cantonese Speaking Countries whereas Igbo Dialects are spoken in different Igbo speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Cantonese vs Igbo Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Cantonese dialects include: Guangzhou, Xiguan. Igbo dialects include: Enuani , Ngwa. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.
Cantonese and Igbo Speaking population
Cantonese and Igbo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Cantonese and Igbo languages can be compared. The total count of Cantonese and Igbo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Cantonese language is 16.00 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Igbo language is 0.09 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Cantonese and Igbo on Cantonese vs Igbo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Cantonese and Igbo Language Codes
Cantonese and Igbo language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Cantonese and Igbo Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.