Countries
Countries
Nigeria
European Union, Malta
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nigeria
Malta
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Australia, Canada, Italy, United States of America
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
National Council for the Maltese Language
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.
- Maltese language is the only semitic language written in Latin characters.
- Maltese language has borrowed many loan words from English, Italian and French.
Similar To
Not Available
Western Arabic Dialects
Derived From
Not Available
Roman Languages
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3630
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2824
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks30 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Greetings
Hello
kedụ
Ħello
Thank You
dalụ
Grazzi
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Kif int?
Good Night
ka chi fo
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Il-Lejla it-tajba
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
Wara nofs in-nar it-tajjeb
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
L-għodwa t-tajba
Please
Biko
Jekk jogħġbok
Sorry
Ndo
Skużani!
Bye
-9999
Ċaw
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Inħobbok ħafna
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
Skużi!
Dialects
Dialect 1
Enuani
Qormi
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Malta
How Many People Speak
NANA
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ngwa
Żejtun
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Malta
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00NA
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Not Present
Where They Speak
Not Available
Not Available
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
202
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million0.52 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
NANA
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million0.52 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
NANA
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
Malti
Alternative Names
Ibo
Malti
French Name
igbo
maltais
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Maltesisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
Not Available
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Maltese
History
Origin
30th Century BC
c. 1470
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Semitic
Branch
Not Available
North Abric
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Maltese
Language Position
57NA
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Not Available
Maltese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ig
mt
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
mlt
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
mlt
ISO 639 3
ibo
mlt
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nucl1417
malt1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12-AAC-c
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic