Countries
Nigeria
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nigeria
Indonesia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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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 Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3627
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2821
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
kedụ
Halo
Thank You
dalụ
matur nuwun
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
piye kabare?
Good Night
ka chi fo
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
Sugeng énjing
Please
Biko
matur nuwun
Sorry
Ndo
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
Kachifo
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Enuani
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ngwa
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Arekan
Where They Speak
-
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
24.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2016
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Ibo
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
igbo
javanais
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
30th Century BC
450 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Javanese
Language Position
5711
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
jav
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
jav
ISO 639 3
ibo
jav
ISO 639 6
ibo
jav
Glottocode
nucl1417
java1253
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