Countries
Countries
Nigeria
Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, Georgia, Republic of Abkhazia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Abkhazia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Not Available
Interesting Facts
- 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.
- Abkhaz is a north-west Caucasian language.
- Abkhaz is spoken in Abkhazia by only 100,000 people, while in Turkey there are 500,000 people speaking Abkhaz.
Similar To
Not Available
Adyghe language, Abaza language
Derived From
Not Available
Caucasian languages
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3662
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
82
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2860
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Not Available
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
3NA
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks27 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
kedụ
Бзиа збаша (Bzia zbaşa)
Thank You
dalụ
Иҭабуп (It̢abup)
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Ушҧаҟоу? (Ušṗaꝁou?)
Good Night
ka chi fo
Ашара шәзыбзиарахааит (Ašara šəzybziaraxaait)
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
Уа, мшы бзиа (Ua, mšy bzia)
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
Уа, Шьыжьы бзиа (Ua, Š’yž’y bzia)
Please
Biko
Not Available
Sorry
Ndo
Not Available
Bye
-9999
Абзиараз (Abziaraz)
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Not available
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
Not available
Dialects
Dialect 1
Enuani
Bzyb
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Abkhazia
How Many People Speak
NANA
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ngwa
Abzhywa
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Caucasus
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00NA
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Sadz
Where They Speak
Not Available
Turkey
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
203
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million0.13 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
NANA
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million0.13 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
NANA
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
аҧсуа бызшәа (aṗsua byzš˚a)
Alternative Names
Ibo
Abxazo, Abkhazian
French Name
igbo
abkhaze
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Abchasisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Abkhaz people
History
Origin
30th Century BC
c. 1650
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Northwest Caucasian
Subgroup
Kwa
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Abkhaz
Language Position
57NA
1
120
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Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ig
ab
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
abk
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
abk
ISO 639 3
ibo
abk
ISO 639 6
Not Available
abks
Glottocode
nucl1417
abkh1244
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Historical
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative