Countries
Nigeria
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nigeria
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Oceania
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Central Hindi Directorate
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.
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Urdu
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3644
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
811
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2833
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
kedụ
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
dalụ
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
ka chi fo
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
Biko
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
Ndo
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
Kachifo
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Enuani
Khariboli
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ngwa
Marwari
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Bundeli
Where They Speak
-
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
24.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2021
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Ibo
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
igbo
hindi
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Hindi
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Hindustani people
Origin
30th Century BC
7th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Standard Hindi
Language Position
575
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
hin
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
hin
ISO 639 3
ibo
hin
ISO 639 6
ibo
hins
Glottocode
nucl1417
hind1269
Linguasphere
No data available
59-AAF-qf
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic