Countries
Estonia, European Union
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
- 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
Finnish
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2736
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
98
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1828
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
23
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Tere
kedụ
Thank You
aitäh
dalụ
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
Head ööd
ka chi fo
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
Palun
Biko
Sorry
Vabandust
Ndo
Bye
Head aega
Kachifo
I Love You
ma armastan sind
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
Vabandage
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
Enuani
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Tartu
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Idamurre
Not present
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
-
How Many People Speak
1,300,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
820
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.03 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
0.95 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
1.10 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
eesti keel
igbo
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
Ibo
French Name
estonien
igbo
German Name
Estnisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Estonians
Igbo people
Origin
13th century
30th Century BC
Language Family
Uralic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
Kwa
Branch
Finnic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Estonian
Standard Igbo
Language Position
2257
1
120
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Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
et
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
est
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
est
ibo
ISO 639 3
est
ibo
ISO 639 6
est
ibo
Glottocode
esto1258
nucl1417
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative