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.
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Kannada Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3651
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
816
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2835
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
kedụ
Namaskara
Thank You
dalụ
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
ka chi fo
yedde rathre
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
yedde kaande
Please
Biko
Daya maltadu
Sorry
Ndo
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
Kachifo
Barpe
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Enuani
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Jain
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Girijan
Where They Speak
-
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
24.002.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
204
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million1.70 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.01 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million1.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
igbo
Tulu
Alternative Names
Ibo
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
igbo
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German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Tulu
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Tuluva
Origin
30th Century BC
14
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Kwa
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Tulu
Language Position
5723
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Signed Tulu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
tul
ISO 639 3
ibo
tcy
ISO 639 6
ibo
tcy
Glottocode
nucl1417
tulu1258
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
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Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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