Countries
Nigeria
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Govenment of Goa
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.
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Marathi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3652
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
816
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2836
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
kedụ
Namaskar
Thank You
dalụ
Dev Borem Korum
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
kaso assa?
Good Night
ka chi fo
Rati Boren Zavonn
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Sanj Borem Zavonn
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
Dis Borem Zavonn
Please
Biko
Chike
Sorry
Ndo
Maf kor
Bye
Kachifo
Adeus
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
hav tujo mog korta.
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
upkar korxi
Dialect 1
Enuani
Antruz
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Goa
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.002,500,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ngwa
Not present
Where They Speak
Nigeria
-
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.002,700,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
24.007.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
201
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million7.40 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.11 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million7.40 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million8.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
Kōṅkaṇī
Alternative Names
Ibo
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
French Name
igbo
konkani
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Konkani
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
kõkɳi
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Konkanis
Origin
30th Century BC
1209 A.D.
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Kwa
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Kokani
Language Position
5723
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ig
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
kok
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
kok
ISO 639 3
ibo
kok
ISO 639 6
ibo
kok
Glottocode
nucl1417
goan1235
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
-