Countries
Nigeria
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Indonesia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
East Timor, Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Denmark, East Timor, Netherlands
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa
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 modern Indonesian language uses many loan words from Persian, Chinese and Arabic.
- In Indonesian language, spelling is phonetically precise, so that words are spelled as they sound.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Malay language
Derived From
-
Malay and Dutch Languages
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3626
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2819
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
37
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
kedụ
Halo
Thank You
dalụ
Terima kasih
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Apa kabar?
Good Night
ka chi fo
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Malam yang baik
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
Selamat Sore
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
Selamat Pagi
Please
Biko
mohon Untuk
Sorry
Ndo
maaf
Bye
Kachifo
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Aku cinta kamu
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
Permisi
Dialect 1
Enuani
Sundanese
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Balinese
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Bali, Indonesia, Lombok and Java, Nusa Penida
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.003,300,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Minangkabau
Where They Speak
-
Indonesia, Malaysia
How Many People Speak
24.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2046
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million163.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %1.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million23.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million140.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
Bahasa Melayu
Alternative Names
Ibo
Bahasa Indonesia
French Name
igbo
indonésien
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Bahasa Indonesia
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[bahaˈsa indoneˈsia]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Indonesians
Origin
30th Century BC
7th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Malay
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Indonesian
Language Position
5756
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Sistem Isyarat Bahasa Indonesia (SIBI, "Signed Indonesian")
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
id
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
ind
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
ind
ISO 639 3
ibo
ind
ISO 639 6
ibo
ind
Glottocode
nucl1417
indo1316
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