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 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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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)
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
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2031
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
25.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
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)
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
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