Countries
Nigeria
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
16
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Moldova, Romania
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Kazakhstan, Russia
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
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.
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
Derived From
-
Latin
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3631
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
87
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2820
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks24 weeks
3
88
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Hello
kedụ
alo
Thank You
dalụ
multumesc
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
ce mai faci?
Good Night
ka chi fo
noapte Buna
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
buna Seara
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
buna Ziua
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
bună Dimineața
Please
Biko
Vă Rog
Sorry
Ndo
scuze
Bye
Kachifo
La revedere
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Te iubesc
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
Scuza-Ma
Dialect 1
Enuani
Aromanian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00250,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Megleno-Romanian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.005,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Istro-Romanian
Where They Speak
-
Croatia
How Many People Speak
24.001,400.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2010
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million28.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.37 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million24.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million4.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
Română
Alternative Names
Ibo
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
French Name
igbo
roumain; moldave
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Rumänisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[roˈmɨnə]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Romanians
Origin
30th Century BC
1521
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Kwa
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Romanian
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Romanian
Language Position
5736
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Romanian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
ro
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
ron
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
rum
ISO 639 3
ibo
ron
ISO 639 6
ibo
ron
Glottocode
nucl1417
roma1327
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic