Countries
Nigeria
Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nigeria
Ethiopia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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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.
- Amharic ranks as second most spoken Semitic language in the world.
- Amharic has its own writing system named “fidel” and it uses Amharic alphabets to write.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Tigrinya and Oromo Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3633
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2831
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Ethiopic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
kedụ
Selam
Thank You
dalụ
amesege'nallo'
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Dehina newot?
Good Night
ka chi fo
Dehna dur
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
melkam meshe't
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
i'ndemin walu
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
i'ndemin adäru
Please
Biko
i'bakwon
Sorry
Ndo
aznallehu
Bye
Kachifo
tschao
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
afekirishalehu
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
yiqirta
Dialect 1
Enuani
Gondar
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Gondar
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0022,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Gojjami
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Showa
Where They Speak
-
Ethiopia
How Many People Speak
24.0022,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
205
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million18.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
አማርኛ
Alternative Names
Ibo
Abyssinian, Amarigna, Amarinya, Amhara, Ethiopian
French Name
igbo
amharique
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Amharisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[amarɨɲɲa]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Amharas
Origin
30th Century BC
13th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Semitic
Branch
-
Ethiopic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Ge'ez
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Amharic
Language Position
5755
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Signed Amharic
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
am
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
amh
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
amh
ISO 639 3
ibo
amh
ISO 639 6
ibo
amh
Glottocode
nucl1417
amha1245
Linguasphere
No data available
12-ACB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional