German

Igbo

German and Igbo

German

Igbo

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Countries

Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries

0 46

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National Language

Germany

Nigeria

Second Language

North Dakota, United States of America

Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Europe

Africa

Minority Language

Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Equatorial Guinea

Regulated By

Council for German Orthography

Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture

Interesting Facts

One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German 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

Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages

Yoruba and Hausa Languages

Derived From

Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2636

18 247

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Phonology

How Many Vowels

108

0 32

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How Many Consonants

928

9 60

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Scripts

Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

2 12

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Time Taken to Learn

30 weeks52 weeks

3 88

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Greetings

Hello

hallo

kedụ

Thank You

Danke

dalụ

How Are You?

Wie geht es dir?

kedụ ka ịmere

Good Night

gute Nacht

ka chi fo

Good Evening

guten Abend

mgbede ọma

Good Afternoon

guten Tag

ehihie ọma

Good Morning

guten Morgen

ụtụtụ ọma

Please

bitte

Biko

Sorry

Verzeihung

Ndo

Bye

Tschüs

Kachifo

I Love You

Ich liebe dich

a hụrụ m gị n'anya

Excuse Me

Entschuldigung

ngọpụ

Dialects

Dialect 1

Swiss German

Enuani

Where They Speak

Switzerland

Nigeria

How Many People Speak

4,500,000.0028,000,000.00

1.5 960000000

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Dialect 2

Swabian German

Ngwa

Where They Speak

Germany

Nigeria

How Many People Speak

820,000.001,500,000.00

700 274000000

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Dialect 3

Texas German

Not present

Where They Speak

Texas

How Many People Speak

6,000.0024.00

2 230000000

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Total No. Of Dialects

2820

0 188

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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

229.00 million25.00 million

0 1200

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Speaking Population

1.39 %0.09 %

0 89

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Native Speakers

101.00 million25.00 million

0 873

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Second Language Speakers

128.00 million24.00 million

0.01 400

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Native Name

Deutsch

igbo

Alternative Names

Deutsch, Tedesco

Ibo

French Name

allemand

igbo

German Name

Deutsch

Ibo-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

[iɡ͡boː]

Ethnicity

Germans

Igbo people

History

Origin

6th Century AD

30th Century BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family

Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Germanic

Kwa

Branch

Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms

Standard Forms

German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Standard Igbo

Language Position

957

1 120

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Signed Forms

Signed German

Igbo Sign Language

Scope

Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

deu

ibo

ISO 639 2/B

ger

ibo

ISO 639 3

deu

ibo

ISO 639 6

deus

ibo

Glottocode

high1287, uppe1397

nucl1417

Linguasphere

52-ACB–dl & -dm

No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional, Synthetic

Agglutinative

German and Igbo Alphabets

German and Igbo Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in German and Igbo. In German Alphabets there are 26 letters while in Igbo Alphabets there are 36 letters. To learn German and Igbo languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of German and Igbo languages. The German phonology consist German vowels and German consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at German greetings vs Igbo greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether German and Igbo are Most Spoken Languages.

All German 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 German and Igbo dialects. Various dialects of German and Igbo language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of German are spoken in different German Speaking Countries whereas Igbo Dialects are spoken in different Igbo speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking German vs Igbo Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the German dialects include: Swiss German, Swabian German. Igbo dialects include: Enuani , Ngwa. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

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German and Igbo Speaking population

German and Igbo speaking population is one of the factors based on which German and Igbo languages can be compared. The total count of German and Igbo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 % 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 German and Igbo on German vs Igbo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

German and Igbo Language Codes

German and Igbo language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. German and Igbo Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.