Countries
Nigeria
Estonia, European Union
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nigeria
Estonia, Gambia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Institute of the Estonian Language
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.
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Finnish
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3627
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
89
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2818
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
kedụ
Tere
Thank You
dalụ
aitäh
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
kuidas sul läheb
Good Night
ka chi fo
Head ööd
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Tere õhtust
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
Tere päevast
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
Tere hommikust
Please
Biko
Palun
Sorry
Ndo
Vabandust
Bye
Kachifo
Head aega
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
ma armastan sind
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
Vabandage
Dialect 1
Enuani
Keskmurre
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.001,300,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ngwa
Tartu
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Georgia, South Estonia
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.001,300,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Idamurre
Where They Speak
-
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
How Many People Speak
24.001,300,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
208
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million1.10 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.03 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million0.95 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million1.10 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
eesti keel
Alternative Names
Ibo
Eesti keel
French Name
igbo
estonien
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Estnisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[eˈstˑoˑniˑa]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Estonians
Origin
30th Century BC
13th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Uralic Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Finno-Ugric
Branch
-
Finnic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Estonian
Language Position
5722
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Estonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ig
et
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
est
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
est
ISO 639 3
ibo
est
ISO 639 6
ibo
est
Glottocode
nucl1417
esto1258
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative