Countries
Nigeria
Armenian Highland
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nigeria
Armenia, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Cyprus, Hungary, Iraq, Poland, Romania, Ukraine
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Armenian National Academy of Sciences
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.
- The first language into which Bible was translated is Armenian.
- Christianity was recognized as a national religion in 301 by Armenia Country.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Greek
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3638
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2832
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Armenian manuscript
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
312
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
kedụ
Բարեւ (Barev)
Thank You
dalụ
Շնորհակալություն (Shnorhakalut’yun)
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Ինչպես եք դուք? (Inch’pes yek’ duk’)
Good Night
ka chi fo
Բարի գիշեր (Bari gisher)
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Բարի երեկո (Bari yereko)
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
Բարի օր (Bari or)
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
Բարի լույս (Bari luys)
Please
Biko
Խնդրում եմ (Khndrum yem)
Sorry
Ndo
կներեք (knerek’)
Bye
Kachifo
Ց'տեսություն
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Ես սիրում եմ քեզ (Yes sirum yem k’yez)
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
Ներեցեք ինձ (Nerets’yek’ indz)
Dialect 1
Enuani
Eastern Armenian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Armenia, Armenian Highland, Georgia, Iran, Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, Turkey
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ngwa
Western Armenian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Armenian Highland, Cilicia, Lebanon, Syria, Turkey
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Eastern Armenian
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
24.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
202
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million6.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.22 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million6.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million7.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
Հայերէն (Hayeren)
Alternative Names
Ibo
Armjanski Yazyk, Ena, Ermeni Dili, Ermenice, Somkhuri
French Name
igbo
arménien
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Armenisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[hɑjɛˈɾɛn]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Armenians
Origin
30th Century BC
late 5th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Kwa
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Armenian, Classical Armenian, Middle Armenian, Armenian
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Eastern Armenian, Western Armenian
Language Position
5714
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Signed Armenian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
hy
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
hye
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
arm
ISO 639 3
ibo
hye
ISO 639 6
ibo
hye
Glottocode
nucl1417
arme1241
Linguasphere
No data available
57-AAA-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative, Synthetic