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Igbo

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Countries

Countries

Nigeria
India

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Nigeria
Bangladesh, India

Second Language

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

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia

Minority Language

Equatorial Guinea
Bangladesh, Bhutan

Regulated By

Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Asam Sahitya Sabha

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.
  • Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
  • Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.

Similar To

Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Bengali and Oriya

Derived From

-
Sanskrit Language

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3652
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

811
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2841
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Bengali

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

33
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

52 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

kedụ
nomoskaar

Thank You

dalụ
ḍhonyobaaḍ

How Are You?

kedụ ka ịmere
aapuni kene aase?

Good Night

ka chi fo
subhoraattri

Good Evening

mgbede ọma
subha gadhuli

Good Afternoon

ehihie ọma
subha abeli

Good Morning

ụtụtụ ọma
suprobhaat

Please

Biko
anugroha kori

Sorry

Ndo
moi ḍukkhita

Bye

Kachifo
biḍai

I Love You

a hụrụ m gị n'anya
moi tomaak bhaalpaao

Excuse Me

ngọpụ
kyoma koribo

Dialects

Dialect 1

Enuani
Kamrupi

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Western Assam

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ngwa
Goalpariya

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Western Assam

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.0016,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not present
Bhakatiya

Where They Speak

-
Assam

How Many People Speak

24.0016,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

203
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million15.30 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.09 %0.24 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million15.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

24.00 million15.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

igbo
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)

Alternative Names

Ibo
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya

French Name

igbo
assamais

German Name

Ibo-Sprache
Assamesisch

Pronunciation

[iɡ͡boː]
[ɔxɔmɔnɔ]

Ethnicity

Igbo people
Assamese people

History

Origin

30th Century BC
7th century A.D

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Kwa
Indo-Iranian

Branch

-
Indic

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Kamarupa

Standard Forms

Standard Igbo
Assamese

Language Position

5765
1 120
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Signed Forms

Igbo Sign Language
Signed Assamese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ig
as

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ibo
asm

ISO 639 2/B

ibo
asm

ISO 639 3

ibo
asm

ISO 639 6

ibo
asm

Glottocode

nucl1417
assa1263

Linguasphere

No data available
59-AAF-w

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
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Igbo and Assamese Alphabets

Igbo and Assamese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Igbo and Assamese. In Igbo Alphabets there are 36 letters while in Assamese Alphabets there are 52 letters. To learn Igbo and Assamese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Igbo and Assamese 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 Assamese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Igbo and Assamese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Igbo and Assamese 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 Assamese dialects. Various dialects of Igbo and Assamese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Igbo are spoken in different Igbo Speaking Countries whereas Assamese Dialects are spoken in different Assamese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Igbo vs Assamese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Igbo dialects include: Enuani, Ngwa. Assamese dialects include: Kamrupi , Goalpariya. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Igbo and Assamese Speaking population

Igbo and Assamese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Igbo and Assamese languages can be compared. The total count of Igbo and Assamese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Igbo language is 0.09 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Assamese language is 0.24 %. 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 Assamese on Igbo vs Assamese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Igbo and Assamese Language Codes

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