Countries
Nigeria
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
University of Sarajevo
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.
- South Slavic language group developed Bosnian Language.
- The muslim Bosnians are referred as "Bosniaks", who are the primary speakers of Bosnian language.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Serbian and Croatian
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3630
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2825
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
kedụ
Zdravo
Thank You
dalụ
Hvala
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Kako si?
Good Night
ka chi fo
Laku noc
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Dobro veće
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
Dobar dan
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
Dobro jutro
Please
Biko
molim vas
Sorry
Ndo
Oprostite
Bye
Kachifo
Zbogom
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Volim te
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
Oprostite
Dialect 1
Enuani
Shtokavian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Bosnia, Croatia, Herzegovina, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0013,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ngwa
Chakavian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Croatia
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00660,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Kajkavian
Where They Speak
-
Croatia
How Many People Speak
24.0021,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
206
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million3.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million3.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
bosanski / босански / بۉسانسقى
Alternative Names
Ibo
Bosanski Jezik
French Name
igbo
bosniaque
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Bosnisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[bɔ̌sanskiː]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Bosniaks
Origin
30th Century BC
19th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Kwa
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Bosnian
Language Position
5724
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Bosnian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
bs
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
bos
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
bos
ISO 639 3
ibo
bos
ISO 639 6
ibo
boss
Glottocode
nucl1417
bosn1245
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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