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Countries

Countries

Nigeria
Meghalaya

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Nigeria
Bangladesh, India

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
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Speaking Continents

Africa
Asia

Minority Language

Equatorial Guinea
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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.
  • Khasi language contain a large number of loanwords from Bengali and Hindi Languages.
  • There is significant dialectal variation in khasi language, since several dialects have only partial mutual intelligibility.

Similar To

Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Garo and Jaintia Languages

Derived From

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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

3623
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

86
0 32
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How Many Consonants

2814
9 60
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Scripts

Latin
Bengali, Latin

Writing Direction

-
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

36
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

52 weeks44 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

kedụ
Kumno

Thank You

dalụ
Khublei

How Are You?

kedụ ka ịmere
Kumno phi long?

Good Night

ka chi fo
thia sukh

Good Evening

mgbede ọma
babha janmiet

Good Afternoon

ehihie ọma
babha noph-phai-sngi

Good Morning

ụtụtụ ọma
khublei

Please

Biko
Sngewbha

Sorry

Ndo
Map

Bye

Kachifo
khublei

I Love You

a hụrụ m gị n'anya
ieit ieit

Excuse Me

ngọpụ
map a nga

Dialects

Dialect 1

Enuani
Bhoi

Where They Speak

Nigeria
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How Many People Speak

28,000,000.001,500,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Ngwa
Nonglung

Where They Speak

Nigeria
-

How Many People Speak

1,500,000.001,200,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Not present
Cherrapunji

Where They Speak

-
-

How Many People Speak

24.001,500,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

205
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

25.00 million0.84 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.09 %0.01 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

25.00 million0.84 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

24.00 million1.50 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

igbo
Ka Ktien

Alternative Names

Ibo
Kahasi, Kassi, Khasa, Khashi, Khasiyas, Khuchia

French Name

igbo
khasi

German Name

Ibo-Sprache
Khasi-Sprache

Pronunciation

[iɡ͡boː]
[ˈkʰɑsi]

Ethnicity

Igbo people
Khasi people

History

Origin

30th Century BC
1200 AD

Language Family

Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family

Subgroup

Kwa
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Branch

-
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No Early Forms

Standard Forms

Standard Igbo
Khasi

Language Position

5740
1 120
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Signed Forms

Igbo Sign Language
Khasi Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ig
No data available

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

ibo
kha

ISO 639 2/B

ibo
kha

ISO 639 3

ibo
kha

ISO 639 6

ibo
kha

Glottocode

nucl1417
khas1269

Linguasphere

No data available
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

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Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative
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Igbo and Khasi Alphabets

Igbo and Khasi Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Igbo and Khasi. In Igbo Alphabets there are 36 letters while in Khasi Alphabets there are 23 letters. To learn Igbo and Khasi languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Igbo and Khasi 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 Khasi greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Igbo and Khasi are Most Spoken Languages.

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

Igbo and Khasi Speaking population

Igbo and Khasi speaking population is one of the factors based on which Igbo and Khasi languages can be compared. The total count of Igbo and Khasi Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Igbo language is 0.09 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Khasi language is 0.01 %. 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 Khasi on Igbo vs Khasi where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Igbo and Khasi Language Codes

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