Countries
Nigeria
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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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.
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Munda Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
3630
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2821
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Writing Direction
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Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
kedụ
Henda ho
Thank You
dalụ
Adi Johar
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Cet’leka menama?
Good Night
ka chi fo
Boge Ninda
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Boge Ayup’
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
संध्यायान
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
Boge Setak’
Please
Biko
দয়া করে
Sorry
Ndo
দুঃখিত
Bye
Kachifo
Hariau
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
Dialect 1
Enuani
Mahali
Where They Speak
Nigeria
India
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.006,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Not present
Where They Speak
Nigeria
-
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
24.006,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
201
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
25.00 million6.30 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.02 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million6.30 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million6.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
igbo
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
Alternative Names
Ibo
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
French Name
igbo
santal
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Santali
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[sɑnˈtɑli]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Origin
30th Century BC
20th century
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austroasiatic Family
Subgroup
Kwa
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Santali
Language Position
5741
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Santali Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
sat
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
sat
ISO 639 3
ibo
sat
ISO 639 6
ibo
sat
Glottocode
nucl1417
sant1410
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
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Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
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