Countries
Nigeria
Iraq, Kurdistan
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Turkey
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Middle East
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Not spoken in any of the countries
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 vocabulary in Kurdish is of Iranian origin.
- In the middle East, Kurdish is the fourth largest ethnic group.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Farsi Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3633
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2829
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Cyrillic, Latin
Writing Direction
-
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks4 weeks
3
88
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Hello
kedụ
Silaw
Thank You
dalụ
Sipas
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Tu çawa yî?
Good Night
ka chi fo
Şev xweş
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Evare baş
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
Nee-wa-rowt bash
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
Bayanit bash
Please
Biko
Bê zehmet
Sorry
Ndo
Bibûre
Bye
Kachifo
Be xêr çî
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Ez te hez dikem
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
Bê zehmet
Dialect 1
Enuani
Northern Kurdish
Where They Speak
Nigeria
northern Iraq, northern Syria, northwest Iran, southeast Turkey
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Central Kurdish
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Iraq, Kurdistan Province of western Iran
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.005,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Southern Kurdish
Where They Speak
-
Eastern Iraq
How Many People Speak
24.003,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
203
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.31 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million21.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million20.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
igbo
Kurdí / کوردی / к’öрди
Alternative Names
Ibo
Kurdî, کوردی
French Name
igbo
kurde
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Kurdisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[kʊɾdɪʃ]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Kurds
Origin
30th Century BC
16th century CE
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Kurdish and Middle Kurdish
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Kurdish
Language Position
5714
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Kurdish Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ig
ku
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
kur
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
kur
ISO 639 3
ibo
kur
ISO 639 6
ibo
kur
Glottocode
nucl1417
kurd1259
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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