Countries
Countries
Nigeria
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
Nigeria
Second Language
Nigeria
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
-
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Interesting Facts
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
- 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
Yoruba and Igbo Languages
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4436
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
128
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3228
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
53
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
sannu
kedụ
Thank You
gode ku
dalụ
How Are You?
yaya dai
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
mai kyau dare
ka chi fo
Good Evening
barka da yamma
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
Don Allah
Biko
Sorry
yi hakuri
Ndo
Bye
sai anjima
Kachifo
I Love You
Ina son ku
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
gafara dai
ngọpụ
Dialects
Dialect 1
Gaananci
Enuani
Where They Speak
Ghana
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
50,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Niger
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
150,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Daragaram
Not present
Where They Speak
Niger
-
How Many People Speak
50.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2020
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.52 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
35.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
igbo
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
Ibo
French Name
haoussa
igbo
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[hàʊsà]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
Igbo people
History
Origin
14
30th Century BC
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Chadic
Kwa
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Hausa
Standard Igbo
Language Position
3457
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Hausa
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ha
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hau
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
hau
ibo
ISO 639 3
hau
ibo
ISO 639 6
hau
ibo
Glottocode
haus1257
nucl1417
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
Agglutinative