Countries
Nigeria
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
India
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
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.
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Old German Language
Derived From
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Prakrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3652
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
816
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2836
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks20 weeks
3
88
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Hello
kedụ
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Thank You
dalụ
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Good Night
ka chi fo
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
शुभः सायंकालः
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
शुभ दुपार
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Please
Biko
कृपया (kripayā)
Sorry
Ndo
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Bye
Kachifo
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Dialect 1
Enuani
Not present
Where They Speak
Nigeria
-
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00140,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Not present
Where They Speak
Nigeria
-
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00140,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
24.00140,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
200
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million14.10 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million14.10 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million-
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Alternative Names
Ibo
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
French Name
igbo
sanskrit
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Sanskrit
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Sanskrit speakers
Origin
30th Century BC
2000 B.C.
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Vedic Sanskrit
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Sanskrit
Language Position
5723
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
-
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
sa
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
san
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
san
ISO 639 3
ibo
san
ISO 639 6
ibo
san
Glottocode
nucl1417
sans1269
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Ancient
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic