Countries
Fiji, India
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Interesting Facts
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
- 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
Urdu
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4436
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
118
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3328
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
kedụ
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
dalụ
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
ka chi fo
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Biko
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
Ndo
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
Kachifo
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Khariboli
Enuani
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Marwari
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Bundeli
Not present
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
-
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2120
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
4.70 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
260.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
हिन्दी
igbo
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
Ibo
French Name
hindi
igbo
German Name
Hindi
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
Igbo people
Origin
7th Century
30th Century BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Kwa
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
Standard Igbo
Language Position
557
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hi
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hin
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
hin
ibo
ISO 639 3
hin
ibo
ISO 639 6
hins
ibo
Glottocode
hind1269
nucl1417
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative