Countries
Countries
Denmark, European Union, Faroe Islands, Greenland, Nordic Council
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
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National Language
Denmark, Faroe Islands, Germany, Greenland
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe, North America, South America
Africa
Minority Language
Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Greenland, Norway, Sweden, United States of America
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Dansk Sprognævn (Danish Language Committee)
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Interesting Facts
- Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are mutually intelligible, that means if u learn Danish is almost like learning three languages in one.
- There are 9 vowels in Danish language, which can be pronounced in 16 different ways.
- 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
Norwegian and Swedish
Not Available
Derived From
Old Norse Language
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2936
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
208
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2028
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
Hallo
kedụ
Thank You
Mange tak
dalụ
How Are You?
Hvordan har du det?
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
God nat
ka chi fo
Good Evening
God aften
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
God eftermiddag
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
God morgen
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
Please
Biko
Sorry
Undskyld!
Ndo
Bye
Farvel
-9999
I Love You
Jeg elsker dig
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
Undskyld mig
ngọpụ
Dialects
Dialect 1
Scanian
Enuani
Where They Speak
Sweden
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
80,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Jutlandic
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Denmark
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
NA1,500,000.00
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bornholmsk
Not present
Where They Speak
Island of Bornholm
Not Available
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
420
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
5.50 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
NANA
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
5.50 million25.00 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
NANA
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
dansk
igbo
Alternative Names
Dansk, Rigsdansk
Ibo
French Name
danois
igbo
German Name
Dänisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[d̥ænˀsɡ̊]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Danish people or Danes
Igbo people
History
Origin
c. 1100 AD
30th Century BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Not Available
Kwa
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Danish, Early Modern Danish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Rigsdansk
Standard Igbo
Language Position
NA57
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Danish
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
da
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
dan
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
dan
ibo
ISO 639 3
dan
ibo
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
dani1284
nucl1417
Linguasphere
5 2-AAA-bf & -ca to -cj
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative