Countries
Nigeria
Myanmar
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Myanmar
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Bangladesh, Burma
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Mon
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Myanmar Language Commission
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 naming of people in Burmese is strange. There is no last name, often name is rhymed such as Ming Ming, Mo Mo or Jo Jo.
- It appears as odd language to many people because it has peculiar pitch register, tonal form as language.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Thai Language
Derived From
-
Pali Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3633
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
812
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2833
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Tangut
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
မင်္ဂလာပါ (maingalarpar)
Thank You
dalụ
ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါသည် (kyaayyjuutainparsai)
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
နေကောင်းလား? (naykaungglarr?)
Good Night
ka chi fo
ကောင်းသောညပါ (kaunggsawnyapar)
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
မင်္ဂလာညနေခင်းပါ (main g lar nyanayhkainn par)
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
မင်္ဂလာနေ့လည်ခင်းပါ (main g lar naelaihkainn par)
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
မင်္ဂလာနံနက်ခင်းပါ (main g lar nannaathkainnpar)
Please
Biko
ကျေးဇူးပြု (kyaayyjuupyu)
Sorry
Ndo
တောင်းပန်ပါတယ် (taunggpaanpartaal)
Bye
Kachifo
နုတ်ဆက်ပါတယ် (notesaatpartaal)
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
မင်းကိုချစ်တယ် (mainnkohkyittaal)
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
ဆင်ခြေဆင်လက် ငါ့ကိုအ (Sainhkyaysainlaat ngarko a)
Dialect 1
Enuani
Arakanese
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Tavoyan
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Myanmar
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00440,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Intha
Where They Speak
-
Burma
How Many People Speak
24.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
205
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million43.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.50 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million33.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million10.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
ဗမာစကား (bama saka)
Alternative Names
Ibo
Bama, Bamachaka, Myanmar, Myen, myanma bhasa
French Name
igbo
birman
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Birmanisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[bəmɛ̀]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Bamar people
Origin
30th Century BC
1113 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Tibeto-Burman
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Burmese, Middle Burmese, Burmese
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Modern Burmese
Language Position
5743
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Burmese sign language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
my
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
mya
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
bur
ISO 639 3
ibo
mya
ISO 639 6
ibo
mya
Glottocode
nucl1417
sout3159
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating