Countries
Nigeria
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
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.
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3653
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
815
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2841
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
kedụ
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
dalụ
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
ka chi fo
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
Biko
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
Ndo
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
Kachifo
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Enuani
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Mappila
Where They Speak
Nigeria
India
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
-
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
24.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
203
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.57 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Ibo
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
igbo
malayalam
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Malayali
Origin
30th Century BC
9th Century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Kwa
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early form
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Malayalam
Language Position
5729
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
mal
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
mal
ISO 639 3
ibo
mal
ISO 639 6
ibo
mal
Glottocode
nucl1417
mala1464
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Synthetic