Countries
Haiti
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Haiti
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Central America, North America
Africa
Minority Language
Cuba
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Akademi Kreyòl Ayisyen (Academy of Haitian Creole)
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Interesting Facts
- In the year 1940, the first technical orthography for Haitian Creole was developed.
- In Haiian Creole, the word 'creole' is of Latin origin via a Portuguese term that means, "person raised in one's house".
- 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
French Language
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2936
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2028
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Bonjou
kedụ
Thank You
Mèsi
dalụ
How Are You?
Kijan ou yé?
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
Bon nwit
ka chi fo
Good Evening
Bonswa
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
Bon apre-midi
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
Bon apre-midi
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
Souple
Biko
Sorry
Dezole
Ndo
Bye
Babay
Kachifo
I Love You
Mwen renmen w
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
Eskize m
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Northern Haitian Creole
Enuani
Where They Speak
Cap-Haitien
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Central Haitian Creole
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Port-au-Prince
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Southern Haitian Creole
Not present
Where They Speak
Cayes
-
How Many People Speak
12,000,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
320
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
9.60 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.15 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
9.60 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
12.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kreyòl ayisyen
igbo
Alternative Names
Creole, Haitian Creole, Western Caribbean Creole
Ibo
French Name
haïtien; créole haïtien
igbo
German Name
Haïtien (Haiti-Kreolisch)
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[kɣejɔl]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Haitians
Igbo people
Origin
17th Century
30th Century BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Kwa
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Haitian Creole
Standard Igbo
Language Position
9957
1
120
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Signed Forms
Langue des Signes Haïtienne (LSH)
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ht
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hat
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
hat
ibo
ISO 639 3
hat
ibo
ISO 639 6
hat
ibo
Glottocode
hait1244
nucl1417
Linguasphere
51-AAC-cb
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative