Countries
Nigeria
Djibouti, Kenya, Somalia
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Somalia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Africa, Middle East
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Yemen
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
National Languages Committee, Regional Somali Language Academy
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.
- Somali language is one of the best documented Afro-Asiatic languages.
- One of the most widely spoken of the Cushitic languages is the Somali Language.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Afar and Oromo Language
Derived From
-
Arabic Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3626
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2821
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Arabic, Latin, Osmanya
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
kedụ
Hello
Thank You
dalụ
Waad ku mahadsan tahay
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Sidee tahay ?
Good Night
ka chi fo
Habeenka Good
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Evening Good
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
galab wanaagsan
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
Subax wanaagsan
Please
Biko
Fadlan
Sorry
Ndo
sorry
Bye
Kachifo
caraysiiyo
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Waan ku jeclahay
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
iga raali ahow
Dialect 1
Enuani
Northern Somali
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Gabon, Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0016,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ngwa
Benaadir
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Georgia, The capital of Mogadishu
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0016,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Af-Ashraaf
Where They Speak
-
Standard Somali
How Many People Speak
24.0021.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
203
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million13.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.07 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million8.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million21.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
af Soomaali
Alternative Names
Ibo
Af-Maxaad Tiri, Af-Soomaali, Common Somali, Soomaaliga
French Name
igbo
somali
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Somali
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[afsoomaali]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Somalis
Origin
30th Century BC
19th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Cushitic
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Somali
Language Position
5783
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Somali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
so
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
som
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
som
ISO 639 3
ibo
som
ISO 639 6
ibo
som
Glottocode
nucl1417
soma1255
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
-