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Countries

Countries

Nigeria
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Nigeria
Japan

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Equatorial Guinea
Palau

Regulated By

Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.

Similar To

Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Korean Language

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3699
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

85
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2814
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Kana

Writing Direction

-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

35
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

52 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

kedụ
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

dalụ
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

kedụ ka ịmere
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

ka chi fo
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

mgbede ọma
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

ehihie ọma
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

ụtụtụ ọma
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

Biko
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

Ndo
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

Kachifo
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

a hụrụ m gị n'anya
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

ngọpụ
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Enuani
Sanuki

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ngwa
Hakata

Where They Speak

Nigeria
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not present
Kansai

Where They Speak

-
kansai

How Many People Speak

24.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

2031
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.09 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

24.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

igbo
日本語

Alternative Names

Ibo
Nihongo

French Name

igbo
japonais

German Name

Ibo-Sprache
Japanisch

Pronunciation

[iɡ͡boː]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Igbo people
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

30th Century BC
1185

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

Kwa
-

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Standard Igbo
Japanese

Language Position

578
1 120
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Signed Forms

Igbo Sign Language
Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ig
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ibo
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

ibo
jpn

ISO 639 3

ibo
jpn

ISO 639 6

ibo
jpn

Glottocode

nucl1417
nucl1643

Linguasphere

No data available
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Igbo and Japanese Alphabets

Igbo and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Igbo and Japanese. In Igbo Alphabets there are 36 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Igbo and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Igbo and Japanese 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 Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Igbo and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Igbo and Japanese Speaking population

Igbo and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Igbo and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Igbo and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Igbo language is 0.09 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. 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 Japanese on Igbo vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Igbo and Japanese Language Codes

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