Countries
Countries
Nigeria
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
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.
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Bengali Language
Derived From
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Sanskrit Language
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3647
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2831
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks18 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
kedụ
નમસ્તે (namaste)
Thank You
dalụ
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
Good Night
ka chi fo
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
Please
Biko
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
Sorry
Ndo
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
Bye
Kachifo
બાય (Bāya)
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Enuani
Kathiyawadi
Where They Speak
Nigeria
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0046,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Kharwa
Where They Speak
Nigeria
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0056,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Surati
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
24.0056,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
208
0
188
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How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.09 %0.74 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
25.00 million50.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
24.00 million55.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
igbo
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
Alternative Names
Ibo
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
French Name
igbo
goudjrati
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Gujarati-Sprache
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Gujaratis
History
Origin
30th Century BC
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Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Gujarati
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Modern Gujarati
Language Position
5723
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Signed Gujarati
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ig
gu
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
guj
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
guj
ISO 639 3
ibo
guj
ISO 639 6
ibo
guj
Glottocode
nucl1417
guja1252
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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