1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Nigeria
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.4 National Language
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
Nigeria
1.5 Second Language
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.6 Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
Africa
1.7 Minority Language
South Africa
Equatorial Guinea
1.8 Regulated By
Not Available
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
1.9 Interesting Facts
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
- 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.
1.10 Similar To
Not Available
Not Available
1.11 Derived From
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.4 Phonology
2.4.1 How Many Vowels
2.4.3 How Many Consonants
3.4 Scripts
3.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Not Available
3.6 Hard to Learn
3.6.1 Language Levels
3.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
5 Greetings
5.1 Hello
5.2 Thank You
5.3 How Are You?
How are you?
kedụ ka ịmere
5.4 Good Night
5.5 Good Evening
5.6 Good Afternoon
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
5.7 Good Morning
5.8 Please
5.9 Sorry
5.10 Bye
5.11 I Love You
I love you
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
5.12 Excuse Me
6 Dialects
6.1 Dialect 1
6.1.1 Where They Speak
United States of America
Nigeria
6.1.2 How Many People Speak
225,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
6.2 Dialect 2
6.2.1 Where They Speak
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Nigeria
6.2.2 How Many People Speak
4,500,000.001,500,000.00
700
80000000
6.3 Dialect 3
Welsh English
Not present
6.3.1 Where They Speak
United Kingdom
Not Available
6.3.2 How Many People Speak
2,500,000.00NA
1400
96000000
6.4 Total No. Of Dialects
7 How Many People Speak
7.1 How Many People Speak?
1,200.00 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
1.3 Speaking Population
2.3 Native Speakers
400.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
2.4.2 Second Language Speakers
400.00 millionNA
0.01
400
2.4.4 Native Name
2.4.5 Alternative Names
2.4.6 French Name
2.4.7 German Name
2.5 Pronunciation
2.6 Ethnicity
Not Available
Igbo people
3 History
3.1 Origin
5th Century AD
30th Century BC
3.2 Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
3.2.1 Subgroup
3.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
3.3 Language Forms
3.3.1 Early Forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
No early forms
3.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard English
Standard Igbo
3.3.3 Language Position
3.6.2 Signed Forms
Signed English
Not Available
3.7 Scope
4 Code
4.1 ISO 639 1
4.2 ISO 639 2
4.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
4.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
4.3 ISO 639 3
4.4 ISO 639 6
4.5 Glottocode
4.6 Linguasphere
4.7 Types of Language
4.7.1 Language Type
4.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
4.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
Agglutinative