Countries
Nigeria
Bulgaria, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Bulgaria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Europe
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Hungary, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Institute for the Bulgarian language
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 only Slavic language which has lost all its grammatical cases is Bulgarian.
- The first Slavic language to be written was Bulgarian in 9th century.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Macedonian language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3630
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2836
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
kedụ
Здравейте (Zdraveĭte)
Thank You
dalụ
Благодаря ти (blagodarya ti)
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Как си? (Kak si?)
Good Night
ka chi fo
Лека нощ (Leka nošt)
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Добър вечер (Dobãr večer)
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
Добър ден (Dobãr den)
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Biko
Моля (Molja)
Sorry
Ndo
Съжалявам (Sãžaljavam)
Bye
Kachifo
Довиждане (Doviždane)
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Обичам те (Običam te)
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Enuani
Kotel-Elena-Dryanovo
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Panagyurishte
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Pirdop
Where They Speak
-
Bulgaria
How Many People Speak
24.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2058
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million7.80 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.21 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million7.80 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million9.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
български (bãlgarski)
Alternative Names
Ibo
Balgarski
French Name
igbo
bulgare
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Bulgarisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[ˈbɤɫɡɐrski]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Bulgarian people
Origin
30th Century BC
9th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Bulgarian, Middle Bulgarian, Modern Bulgarian
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Standard Bulgarian
Language Position
5788
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Bulgarian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
bg
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
bul
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
bul
ISO 639 3
ibo
bul
ISO 639 6
ibo
buls
Glottocode
nucl1417
bulg1262
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-hb
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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