Countries
Nigeria
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Nepal
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
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.
- Earlier, Maithili language was considered as the dialect of Hindi and Bengali, however in the year 2003 Maithili achieved an independent language status in India.
- Maithili has rich literature.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Bhojpuri Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3647
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2822
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
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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Hello
kedụ
pranam
Thank You
dalụ
dhanyabad
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Aahan kehan chhi ?
Good Night
ka chi fo
Śubharātri
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
shubh sandhya
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
dopahar ke bad namaskar
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
Suprabhaat
Please
Biko
kripaya
Sorry
Ndo
maf karai
Bye
Kachifo
Alavidā
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
hawm ahāṃ se prem karechi
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
kripaya
Dialect 1
Enuani
Tharuwat
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Nepal
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0035,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Madhubani
Where They Speak
Nigeria
North India
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0035,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Khortha
Where They Speak
-
Deoghar, France
How Many People Speak
24.0035,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2015
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million32.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.41 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million27.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million2.80 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
मैथिली (mɛtʰilī)
Alternative Names
Ibo
Apabhramsa, Bihari, Maitili, Maitli, Methli, Tirahutia, Tirhuti, Tirhutia
French Name
igbo
maithili
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Maithili
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[ˈmaitʰili]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Maithil
Origin
30th Century BC
14th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Kwa
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Standard Maithili
Language Position
5740
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Maithili Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
mai
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
mai
ISO 639 3
ibo
mai
ISO 639 6
ibo
mai
Glottocode
nucl1417
mait1250
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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