Countries
Countries
India
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
-
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Interesting Facts
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
- 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
Bengali Language
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4736
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3128
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
18 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
kedụ
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
dalụ
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
ka chi fo
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Biko
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Ndo
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
Kachifo
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
ngọpụ
Dialects
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
Enuani
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
46,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Kharwa
Ngwa
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Surati
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
56,000,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
820
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.74 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
50.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
55.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
igbo
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
Ibo
French Name
goudjrati
igbo
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
Igbo people
History
Origin
15
30th Century BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Kwa
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
No early forms
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
Standard Igbo
Language Position
2357
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Gujarati
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
gu
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
guj
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
guj
ibo
ISO 639 3
guj
ibo
ISO 639 6
guj
ibo
Glottocode
guja1252
nucl1417
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative