Countries
Countries
Nigeria
South Africa
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nigeria
South Africa
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Namibia, South Africa
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Die Taalkommissie, National Languages Committee
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.
- Afrikaans Language is a mixture of English, Dutch, German, French and some South African language like Xhosa.
- Afrikaans Language lacks case and gender distinctions.
Similar To
Not Available
Dutch Language
Derived From
Not Available
Dutch Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3632
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
815
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2817
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks24 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
kedụ
hallo
Thank You
dalụ
Dankie
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Hoe gaan dit
Good Night
ka chi fo
goeie nag
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Goeienaand
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
Goeie middag
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
goeie more
Please
Biko
asseblief
Sorry
Ndo
jammer
Bye
-9999
-9999
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Ek het jou lief
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
Verskoon my
Dialects
Dialect 1
Enuani
Kaapse Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Not Available
How Many People Speak
NANA
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ngwa
Oranjeriverafrikaans
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Not Available
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00NA
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Baster Afrikaans
Where They Speak
Not Available
Namibia
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
203
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million19.00 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
NANA
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million7.10 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
NA10.30 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
Afrikaans
Alternative Names
Ibo
Cape Dutch
French Name
igbo
afrikaans
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Afrikaans
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[ɐfriˈkɑːns]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Afrikaners
History
Origin
30th Century BC
17th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Germanic
Branch
Not Available
Western
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Cape dutch or kitchen dutch
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Standard Afrikaans
Language Position
57NA
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Afrikaans (signs of SASL)
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ig
af
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
afr
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
afr
ISO 639 3
ibo
afr
ISO 639 6
Not Available
afrs
Glottocode
nucl1417
afri1274
Linguasphere
No data available
52-ACB-ba
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic