Countries
Countries
Nigeria
East Asia, European Union, South America
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
East Asia, European Union
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Central Europe, East Asia, Eastern Europe, South America
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe, South America
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Akademio de Esperanto
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.
- The most widely spoken constructed language in the world is Esperanto.
- Esperanto is an artificial international language.
Similar To
Not Available
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Derived From
Not Available
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Alphabets
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3632
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2827
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks6 weeks
3
88
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Greetings
Hello
kedụ
Halo
Thank You
dalụ
Dankon
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Kiel vi sanas?
Good Night
ka chi fo
Bonan nokton
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Bonan vesperon
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
Bonan posttagmezon
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
Bonan matenon
Please
Biko
Mi petas
Sorry
Ndo
Mi bedaŭras!
Bye
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Ĝis poste
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Mi amas vin
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
Pardonu!
Dialects
Dialect 1
Enuani
Not present
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Not present
How Many People Speak
NANA
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ngwa
Not present
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Not present
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00NA
700
80000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Not present
Where They Speak
Not Available
Not present
How Many People Speak
NANA
1400
96000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
200
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million2.20 million
0.13
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
NANA
0.11
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million0.20 million
0.13
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
NA2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
Esperanto
Alternative Names
Ibo
Eo, La Lingvo Internacia
French Name
igbo
espéranto
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Esperanto
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[espeˈranto]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Not Available
History
Origin
30th Century BC
1887
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Not Available
Branch
Not Available
Not Available
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Esperanto
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Esperanto
Language Position
57NA
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signuno
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ig
eo
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
epo
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
epo
ISO 639 3
ibo
epo
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nucl1417
espe1235
Linguasphere
No data available
51-AAB-da
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Constructed
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative