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Countries

Countries

Nigeria
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Total No. Of Countries

133
0 46
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National Language

Nigeria
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore

Speaking Continents

Africa
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America

Minority Language

Equatorial Guinea
South Africa

Regulated By

Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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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.
  • Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
  • English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.

Similar To

Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and German Languages

Derived From

-
Latin

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3626
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

85
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

37
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

52 weeks6 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

kedụ
Hello

Thank You

dalụ
Thank you

How Are You?

kedụ ka ịmere
How are you?

Good Night

ka chi fo
Good Night

Good Evening

mgbede ọma
Good Evening

Good Afternoon

ehihie ọma
Good Afternoon

Good Morning

ụtụtụ ọma
Good Morning

Please

Biko
Please

Sorry

Ndo
Sorry

Bye

Kachifo
Bye

I Love You

a hụrụ m gị n'anya
I love you

Excuse Me

ngọpụ
Excuse Me

Dialects

Dialect 1

Enuani
American English

Where They Speak

Nigeria
United States of America

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.00225,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ngwa
Hiberno-English

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

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

Not present
Welsh English

Where They Speak

-
United Kingdom

How Many People Speak

24.002,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

20188
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million1,200.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.09 %5.43 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million400.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

24.00 million400.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

igbo
English

Alternative Names

Ibo
English

French Name

igbo
anglais

German Name

Ibo-Sprache
Englisch

Pronunciation

[iɡ͡boː]
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/

Ethnicity

Igbo people
English people

History

Origin

30th Century BC
5th Century AD

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Kwa
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Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English

Standard Forms

Standard Igbo
Standard English

Language Position

573
1 120
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Signed Forms

Igbo Sign Language
Signed English

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ig
en

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ibo
eng

ISO 639 2/B

ibo
eng

ISO 639 3

ibo
eng

ISO 639 6

ibo
engs

Glottocode

nucl1417
stan1293

Linguasphere

No data available
52-ABA

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic

Igbo and English Alphabets

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

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

Igbo and English Speaking population

Igbo and English speaking population is one of the factors based on which Igbo and English languages can be compared. The total count of Igbo and English Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Igbo language is 0.09 % whereas the percentage of people speaking English language is 5.43 %. 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 English on Igbo vs English where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Igbo and English Language Codes

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