Countries
Nigeria
Bhutan
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Bhutan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
India
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
India
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Dzongkha Development 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.
- Standard romanization of the Dzongkha language is Roman Dzongkha.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Sikkimese Language
Derived From
-
Tibetan Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3695
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2830
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Dzongkha Braille, Tibetan Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks38 weeks
3
88
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Hello
kedụ
Kuzoozangpo La
Thank You
dalụ
Kaadinchhey La
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Ga Day Bay Zhu Yoe Ga ?
Good Night
ka chi fo
lek shom ay zim
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
ཞི་བདེ་ལག་པ་
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
ཉིན་གུང་དགའ་བོ
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
ཞི་བདེ་པའི་སྔོན་འགྲུལ
Please
Biko
བསྐྱར་མ་
Sorry
Ndo
Tsip maza
Bye
Kachifo
Log Jay Gay
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Nga cheu lu ga
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
Tsip maza
Dialect 1
Enuani
Laya
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.001,100.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Lunana
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00700.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Adap
Where They Speak
-
Bhutan
How Many People Speak
24.00130,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
204
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million0.64 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million0.17 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million0.47 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
རྫོང་ཁ (dzongkha)
Alternative Names
Ibo
Bhotia of Bhutan, Bhotia of Dukpa, Bhutanese, Drukha, Drukke, Dukpa, Jonkha, Rdzongkha, Zongkhar
French Name
igbo
dzongkha
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Dzongkha
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[t͡ɕoŋkʰa]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Ngalop people
Origin
30th Century BC
17th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Kwa
-
Branch
-
Tibeto-Burman
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Dzongkha
Language Position
5731
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Signed Dzongkha
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
dz
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
dzo
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
dzo
ISO 639 3
ibo
dzo
ISO 639 6
ibo
dzo
Glottocode
nucl1417
nucl1307
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
-