Countries
Nigeria
Zimbabwe
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa
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.
- Shona language is tonal language.
- The African people in Zimbabwe is made of 10 ethnic groups, each speaking a different languages, shona is spoken by 60 percent of population.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Kalanga and Nambya Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3637
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2846
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks30 weeks
3
88
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Hello
kedụ
Mhoro
Thank You
dalụ
Waita zvako
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Wakadini zvako?
Good Night
ka chi fo
Urare zvakanaka
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Manheru
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
Masikati
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
Mangwanani
Please
Biko
Ndinokumbirawo
Sorry
Ndo
Ndineurombo
Bye
Kachifo
bye
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Ndinokuda
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
Pamusoro
Dialect 1
Enuani
Hwesa
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0011,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Karanga
Where They Speak
Nigeria
southern Zimbabwe
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.001,100,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Zezuru
Where They Speak
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central Zimbabwe, Mashonaland
How Many People Speak
24.0016.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
204
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
25.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.09 %0.13 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million8.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
igbo
chiShona
Alternative Names
Ibo
Chishona, “Swina” (pej.), Zezuru
French Name
igbo
shona
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Schona-Sprache
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[ʃoːna]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Shona people
Origin
30th Century BC
20th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Benue-Congo
Branch
-
Bantu
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Shona and Middle Shona
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Standard Shona
Language Position
57107
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Signed Shona
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
sn
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
sna
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
sna
ISO 639 3
ibo
sna
ISO 639 6
ibo
sna
Glottocode
nucl1417
core1255
Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-a
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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