Countries
Nigeria
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Malaysia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Thailand
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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.
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Indonesian Language
Derived From
-
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3626
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2824
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
kedụ
Hai
Thank You
dalụ
terima kasih
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Apa khabar?
Good Night
ka chi fo
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
Selamat pagi
Please
Biko
sila
Sorry
Ndo
maaf
Bye
Kachifo
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Enuani
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Pekal
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0030,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Musi
Where They Speak
-
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
24.003,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2024
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million175.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %1.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million98.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Ibo
Bahasa Malaysia
French Name
igbo
malais
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Malaysian people
Origin
30th Century BC
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Kwa
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
5754
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
ms
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
msa
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
may
ISO 639 3
ibo
zsm
ISO 639 6
ibo
may
Glottocode
nucl1417
stan1306
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative