Countries
Nigeria
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nigeria
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Hawaii
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
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.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3628
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2820
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
kedụ
您好
Thank You
dalụ
谢谢
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
你好吗？
Good Night
ka chi fo
晚安
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
晚上好
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
下午好
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
早上好
Please
Biko
请
Sorry
Ndo
遗憾
Bye
Kachifo
再见
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
我爱你
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
原谅我
Dialect 1
Enuani
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Nigeria
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ngwa
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
-
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
24.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
203
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Ibo
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
igbo
cantonais
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Han Chinese
Origin
30th Century BC
17th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Kwa
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
571
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
ig
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
yue
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
yue
ISO 639 3
ibo
No data available
ISO 639 6
ibo
yue
Glottocode
nucl1417
cant1236
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
-