Countries
Nigeria
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
National Language
Nigeria
Russia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Afganistan
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Europe
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
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.
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
Similar To
Not Available
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hello
kedụ
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
dalụ
спасибо(spasibo)
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
Good Night
ka chi fo
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
Please
Biko
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Sorry
Ndo
Извините(Izvinite)
Bye
Not Available
до свидания(do svidaniya)
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
извините(izvinite)
Dialect 1
Enuani
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Olonets
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not present
Novgorod
Where They Speak
Not Available
Novgorod
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Alternative Names
Ibo
Russki
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Russisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Russians
Origin
30th Century BC
1000 AD
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Branch
Not Available
Eastern
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Standard Russian
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nucl1417
russ1263
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ea
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic
Igbo and Russian Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Igbo and Russian greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Igbo and Russian language. Igbo word for "Hello" is kedụ or Russian word for "Thank You" is спасибо(spasibo). Find more of such common Igbo Greetings and Russian Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Igbo vs Russian Difficulty
The Igbo vs Russian difficulty level basically depends on the number of Igbo Alphabets and Russian Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Igbo and Russian are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Igbo and Russian, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Igbo is 52 weeks while to learn Russian time required is 44 weeks.