Countries
Nigeria
Israel
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Israel
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Israel
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Poland
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Academy of the Hebrew 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.
- The original language of Bible is Hebrew.
- The men and women use different verbs in hebrew language.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Arabic and Aramaic languages
Derived From
-
Aramaic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3622
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
80
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2822
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Hebrew
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
kedụ
שלום (Shalom)
Thank You
dalụ
תודה (Toda)
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
מה שלומך? (ma shlomxa)
Good Night
ka chi fo
לילה טוב (Laila tov)
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
ערב טוב (Erev tov)
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
אחר צהריים טובים (Achar tzahara'im tovim)
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
בוקר טוב (Boker tov)
Please
Biko
בבקשה (bevekshah)
Sorry
Ndo
סליחה! (Slicha)
Bye
Kachifo
להתראות (Lehitraot)
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
אני אוהבת אותך (Ani ohevet otcha)
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
בבקשה!
Dialect 1
Enuani
Ashkenazi Hebrew
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Israel
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.009,200,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Samaritan Hebrew
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Israel, Palestine
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.009,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Yemenite Hebrew
Where They Speak
-
Israel
How Many People Speak
24.009,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
207
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million9.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million4.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million5.60 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
עברית / עִבְרִית (ivrit)
Alternative Names
Ibo
Israeli, Ivrit
French Name
igbo
hébreu
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Hebräisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[(ʔ)ivˈʁit] - [(ʔ)ivˈɾit]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Hebrew-speaking people
Origin
30th Century BC
1000 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Semitic
Branch
-
Canaanitic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Biblical Hebrew, Mishnaic Hebrew, Medieval Hebrew, Hebrew
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Modern Hebrew
Language Position
5723
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Signed Hebrew
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
he
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
heb
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
heb
ISO 639 3
ibo
heb
ISO 639 6
ibo
heb
Glottocode
nucl1417
hebr1246
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAB-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic