Countries
Nigeria
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Filipinos
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia, Australia
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
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 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
- The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3625
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2818
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Baybayin
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
kedụ
Kamusta
Thank You
dalụ
Salamat po
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Kamusta ka na?
Good Night
ka chi fo
Magandang gabi
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Magandang gabi po
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
Magandang hapon po
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
Magandang umaga po
Please
Biko
pakiusap
Sorry
Ndo
pinagsisisihan
Bye
Kachifo
Paálam
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Iniibig kita
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
Dialect 1
Enuani
Batangas Tagalog
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Batangas, Gabon
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Ngwa
Bisalog
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Philippines
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Filipino
Where They Speak
-
Philippines
How Many People Speak
24.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
203
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million73.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million45.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
Tagalog
Alternative Names
Ibo
Filipino, Pilipino
French Name
igbo
tagalog
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Tagalog
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Tagalog people
Origin
30th Century BC
1593
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Filipino
Language Position
5758
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Signed Tagalog
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
t1
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
tgl
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
tgl
ISO 639 3
ibo
tg1
ISO 639 6
ibo
tgl
Glottocode
nucl1417
taga1269
Linguasphere
No data available
31-CKA
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
-