Countries
Nigeria
Macedonia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3631
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2826
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
kedụ
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
dalụ
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
ka chi fo
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Biko
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Sorry
Ndo
жал (žal)
Bye
Kachifo
Чао (Čao)
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialect 1
Enuani
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.001.50
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Debar
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.002,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Galičnik
Where They Speak
-
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
24.002,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2028
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million2.50 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.05 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million2.50 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Ibo
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
igbo
macédonien
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Macedonians
Origin
30th Century BC
2200 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Slavic
Branch
-
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Macedonian
Language Position
5745
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
mk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
mkd
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
mac
ISO 639 3
ibo
mkd
ISO 639 6
ibo
mkd
Glottocode
nucl1417
mace1250
Linguasphere
No data available
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Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic