Countries
Nigeria
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3648
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
812
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
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
kedụ
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
dalụ
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
ka chi fo
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
Good afternoon
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Biko
कृपया
Sorry
Ndo
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Kachifo
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Enuani
Doteli
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Nepal
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Nigeria
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
-
Nepal
How Many People Speak
24.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2012
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Ibo
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
igbo
népalais
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Nepali
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
30th Century BC
19 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Nepali
Language Position
5759
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
ig
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
nep
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
nep
ISO 639 3
ibo
npi
ISO 639 6
ibo
nep
Glottocode
nucl1417
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No data available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative