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Countries

Countries

Nigeria
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland

Total No. Of Countries

17
0 46
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National Language

Nigeria
Germany

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
North Dakota, United States of America

Speaking Continents

Africa
Europe

Minority Language

Equatorial Guinea
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Regulated By

Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Council for German Orthography

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.
  • One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
  • The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.

Similar To

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

Derived From

-
Albanian Languages

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3626
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

810
0 32
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How Many Consonants

289
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 weeks30 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

kedụ
hallo

Thank You

dalụ
Danke

How Are You?

kedụ ka ịmere
Wie geht es dir?

Good Night

ka chi fo
gute Nacht

Good Evening

mgbede ọma
guten Abend

Good Afternoon

ehihie ọma
guten Tag

Good Morning

ụtụtụ ọma
guten Morgen

Please

Biko
bitte

Sorry

Ndo
Verzeihung

Bye

Kachifo
Tschüs

I Love You

a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Ich liebe dich

Excuse Me

ngọpụ
Entschuldigung

Dialects

Dialect 1

Enuani
Swiss German

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Switzerland

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.004,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ngwa
Swabian German

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Germany

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00820,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not present
Texas German

Where They Speak

-
Texas

How Many People Speak

24.006,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2028
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million229.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.09 %1.39 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million101.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

24.00 million128.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

igbo
Deutsch

Alternative Names

Ibo
Deutsch, Tedesco

French Name

igbo
allemand

German Name

Ibo-Sprache
Deutsch

Pronunciation

[iɡ͡boː]
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]

Ethnicity

Igbo people
Germans

History

Origin

30th Century BC
6th Century AD

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family

Subgroup

Kwa
Germanic

Branch

-
Western

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Standard Igbo
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German

Language Position

579
1 120
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Signed Forms

Igbo Sign Language
Signed German

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ig
de

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ibo
deu

ISO 639 2/B

ibo
ger

ISO 639 3

ibo
deu

ISO 639 6

ibo
deus

Glottocode

nucl1417
high1287, uppe1397

Linguasphere

No data available
52-ACB–dl & -dm

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic

Igbo and German Alphabets

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

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

Igbo and German Speaking population

Igbo and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Igbo and German languages can be compared. The total count of Igbo and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Igbo language is 0.09 % whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Igbo vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Igbo and German Language Codes

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