Countries
Nigeria
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Total No. Of Countries
15
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nigeria
China, Taiwan
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Indonesia, Malaysia
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Japanese and Korean Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3626
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
824
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2823
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
kedụ
您好 (Nín hǎo)
Thank You
dalụ
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Good Night
ka chi fo
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Please
Biko
请 (Qǐng)
Sorry
Ndo
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
Bye
Kachifo
再见 (Zàijiàn)
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
劳驾 (Láojià)
Dialect 1
Enuani
Mandarin
Where They Speak
Nigeria
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ngwa
Wu
Where They Speak
Nigeria
China, United States of America
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0080,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Yue
Where They Speak
-
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
How Many People Speak
24.0060,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2010
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million1,051.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million873.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
中文 (zhōngwén)
Alternative Names
Ibo
Zhongwen, Hanyu
French Name
igbo
chinois
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Chinesisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[ʈʂʰíŋ] [huà]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Han
Origin
30th Century BC
1250 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Kwa
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Standard Chinese
Language Position
571
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
zh
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
zho
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
chi
ISO 639 3
ibo
zho
ISO 639 6
ibo
zho
Glottocode
nucl1417
sini1245
Linguasphere
No data available
79-AAA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating