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Countries

Countries

Nigeria
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname

Total No. Of Countries

16
0 46
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National Language

Nigeria
Aruba, Belgium, Curacao, Netherlands, Sint Maarten, Suriname

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia, Europe, North America, South America

Minority Language

Equatorial Guinea
France, Germany, Indonesia

Regulated By

Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Nederlandse Taalunie (Dutch Language Union)

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.
  • Dutch language consist of extremely long words. The longest dutch word in the dictionary is 53 letters long.
  • There exists 75% borrowed words in Dutch language, and a lot of those are French, English and Hebrew.

Similar To

Yoruba and Hausa Languages
German and English Languages

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3626
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

86
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2821
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Latin

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

52 weeks24 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

kedụ
Hallo

Thank You

dalụ
dankjewel

How Are You?

kedụ ka ịmere
hoe gaat het met je?

Good Night

ka chi fo
goede Nacht

Good Evening

mgbede ọma
goedenavond

Good Afternoon

ehihie ọma
goedemiddag

Good Morning

ụtụtụ ọma
goedemorgen

Please

Biko
alsjeblieft

Sorry

Ndo
sorry

Bye

Kachifo
vaarwel

I Love You

a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Ik hou van jou

Excuse Me

ngọpụ
pardon

Dialects

Dialect 1

Enuani
Gronings

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Netherlands

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.00590,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ngwa
Low Saxon

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Denmark, Germany, Netherlands

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.004,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not present
Limburgian

Where They Speak

-
Belgium, Netherlands

How Many People Speak

24.001,300,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

207
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million28.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.09 %0.32 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million22.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

24.00 million6.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

igbo
Nederlands

Alternative Names

Ibo
Hollands, Nederlands

French Name

igbo
néerlandais; flamand

German Name

Ibo-Sprache
Niederländisch

Pronunciation

[iɡ͡boː]
[ˈneːdərlɑnts]

Ethnicity

Igbo people
Dutch people

History

Origin

30th Century BC
AD 450-500

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Kwa
Germanic

Branch

-
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Dutch, Middle Dutch and Dutch

Standard Forms

Standard Igbo
Standard Dutch

Language Position

5748
1 120
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Signed Forms

Igbo Sign Language
Signed Dutch (Nederlands met Gebaren)

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ig
nl

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ibo
nld

ISO 639 2/B

ibo
dut

ISO 639 3

ibo
nld

ISO 639 6

ibo
nld

Glottocode

nucl1417
mode1257

Linguasphere

No data available
52-ACB-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Historical

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Synthetic

Igbo and Dutch Alphabets

Igbo and Dutch Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Igbo and Dutch. In Igbo Alphabets there are 36 letters while in Dutch Alphabets there are 26 letters. To learn Igbo and Dutch languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Igbo and Dutch 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 Dutch greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Igbo and Dutch are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Igbo and Dutch Speaking population

Igbo and Dutch speaking population is one of the factors based on which Igbo and Dutch languages can be compared. The total count of Igbo and Dutch Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Igbo language is 0.09 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Dutch language is 0.32 %. 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 Dutch on Igbo vs Dutch where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Igbo and Dutch Language Codes

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