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Arabic
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Countries

Countries

Nigeria
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Total No. Of Countries

123
0 46
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National Language

Nigeria
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa
Africa, Asia

Minority Language

Equatorial Guinea
Not spoken in any of the countries

Regulated By

Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council

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.
  • Arabic is 5th common language in world.
  • Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.

Similar To

Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Amharic and Hebrew

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3628
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

88
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2828
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Arabic

Writing Direction

-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

34
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

52 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

kedụ
مرحبا

Thank You

dalụ
شكرا

How Are You?

kedụ ka ịmere
كيف حالك؟

Good Night

ka chi fo
تصبح على خير

Good Evening

mgbede ọma
مساء الخير

Good Afternoon

ehihie ọma
مساء الخير

Good Morning

ụtụtụ ọma
صباح الخير

Please

Biko
من فضلك

Sorry

Ndo
آسف

Bye

Kachifo
وداعا

I Love You

a hụrụ m gị n'anya
أحبك

Excuse Me

ngọpụ
اعذرني

Dialects

Dialect 1

Enuani
Maghrebi

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.00310,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ngwa
Sudanese

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Sudan

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0017,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not present
Levantine

Where They Speak

-
Cyprus, Levant

How Many People Speak

24.0021,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2026
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million452.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.09 %4.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million206.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

24.00 million246.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

igbo
(al arabiya) العربية

Alternative Names

Ibo
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic

French Name

igbo
arabe

German Name

Ibo-Sprache
Arabisch

Pronunciation

[iɡ͡boː]
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/

Ethnicity

Igbo people
Arabs

History

Origin

30th Century BC
512 CE

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family

Subgroup

Kwa
Semitic

Branch

-
North Arabic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Igbo
Modern Standard Arabic

Language Position

5725
1 120
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Signed Forms

Igbo Sign Language
Signed Arabic

Scope

Individual
Macrolanguage

Code

ISO 639 1

ig
ar

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ibo
ara

ISO 639 2/B

ibo
ara

ISO 639 3

ibo
ara

ISO 639 6

ibo
ara

Glottocode

nucl1417
arab1395

Linguasphere

No data available
12-AAC

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic

Igbo and Arabic Alphabets

Igbo and Arabic Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Igbo and Arabic. In Igbo Alphabets there are 36 letters while in Arabic Alphabets there are 28 letters. To learn Igbo and Arabic languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Igbo and Arabic languages. The Igbo phonology consist Igbo vowels and Igbo consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Igbo greetings vs Arabic greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Igbo and Arabic are Most Spoken Languages.

All Igbo and Arabic Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Igbo and Arabic dialects. Various dialects of Igbo and Arabic language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Igbo are spoken in different Igbo Speaking Countries whereas Arabic Dialects are spoken in different Arabic speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Igbo vs Arabic Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Igbo dialects include: Enuani, Ngwa. Arabic dialects include: Maghrebi , Sudanese. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Igbo and Arabic Speaking population

Igbo and Arabic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Igbo and Arabic languages can be compared. The total count of Igbo and Arabic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Igbo language is 0.09 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Igbo and Arabic on Igbo vs Arabic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Igbo and Arabic Language Codes

Igbo and Arabic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Igbo and Arabic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.