1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
3.8 National Language
3.9 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Lesotho, South Africa
3.10 Speaking Continents
3.11 Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Botswana, Lesotho
3.12 Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Not Available
3.13 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.
- Xhosa has 15 click sounds, borrowed from the khoi-khoi and san languages of the South Africa.
- The same sequence of consonants and vowels can have different meaning when said with different tones, so Xhosa is tonal.
3.14 Similar To
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Zulu, Swazi, and Ndebele
3.15 Derived From
Not Available
Khoi-Khoi and San Languages
4 Alphabets
4.1 Alphabets in
4.2 Alphabets
6.2 Phonology
6.2.1 How Many Vowels
6.5.3 How Many Consonants
7.4 Scripts
7.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
7.6 Hard to Learn
7.6.1 Language Levels
7.7.1 Time Taken to Learn
10 Greetings
10.1 Hello
10.2 Thank You
10.3 How Are You?
10.4 Good Night
10.5 Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Ubusuku obuhle
10.6 Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
Uben' emva kwemini entle
1.2 Good Morning
1.3 Please
1.4 Sorry
1.6 Bye
Not Available
Uhambe/Usale kakuhle
1.7 I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Ndiyakuthanda
1.8 Excuse Me
2 Dialects
2.1 Dialect 1
2.1.1 Where They Speak
2.1.2 How Many People Speak
2.3 Dialect 2
2.3.1 Where They Speak
2.3.2 How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00NA
700
80000000
3.4 Dialect 3
3.4.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
South Africa
3.4.2 How Many People Speak
3.6 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
25.00 million20.00 million
0.13
1200
6.8 Speaking Population
6.9 Native Speakers
25.00 million8.20 million
0.13
873
3.1.3 Second Language Speakers
4.3.3 Native Name
4.3.4 Alternative Names
Ibo
“Cauzuh” (pej.), Isixhosa, Koosa, Xosa
4.3.5 French Name
4.3.6 German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Xhosa-Sprache
4.4 Pronunciation
4.5 Ethnicity
Igbo people
amaXhosa, amaBhaca
5 History
5.1 Origin
30th Century BC
16th Century
5.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Niger-Congo Family
5.2.1 Subgroup
5.2.2 Branch
5.3 Language Forms
5.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
5.3.2 Standard Forms
5.3.3 Language Position
5.6.2 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Xhosa
5.7 Scope
6 Code
6.1 ISO 639 1
6.2 ISO 639 2
6.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
6.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
6.3 ISO 639 3
6.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
6.5 Glottocode
6.6 Linguasphere
No data available
99-AUT-fa
6.7 Types of Language
6.7.1 Language Type
6.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
6.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Not Available