Countries
Nigeria
Thailand
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Nigeria
Thailand
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Asia
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Burma, Cambodia, Laos
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Royal Society of Thailand (ราชบัณฑิตยสภา)
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.
- Thai is tonal language and also it is very repetitive and exaggerative language.
- You should learn thai language with native speakers and not with books or recorders, since speaking and writing in thai are not the same.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Lao Language
Derived From
-
Khmer Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3644
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
832
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2844
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Thai
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
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Thank You
dalụ
ขอบคุณ (K̄hxbkhuṇ)
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
คุณเป็นอย่างไร? (Khuṇ pĕn xỳāngrị?)
Good Night
ka chi fo
นอนหลับฝันดี (Nxn h̄lạb f̄ạn dī)
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
สวัสดี (S̄wạs̄dī)
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
สวัสดีตอนบ่าย (S̄wạs̄dī txn b̀āy)
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
อรุณสวัสดิ์ (Xruṇ s̄wạs̄di̒)
Please
Biko
โปรด (Pord)
Sorry
Ndo
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Bye
Kachifo
ลาก่อน (Lā k̀xn)
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
ผมรักคุณ (P̄hm rạk khuṇ)
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
ขอโทษ (K̄hxthos̄ʹ)
Dialect 1
Enuani
Isan
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Isan
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0020,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Northern Thai
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Northern Thailand
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.006,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Southern Thai
Where They Speak
-
Kedah, Kelantan, Southern Thailand, Tanintharyi
How Many People Speak
24.004,500,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
209
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.85 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million20.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million40.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
ภาษาไทย
Alternative Names
Ibo
Siamese, Standard Thai, Thaiklang
French Name
igbo
thaï
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Thailändisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[pʰāːsǎː tʰāj]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Central Thai and Thai Chinese
Origin
30th Century BC
1283 CE
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Tai-Kadai Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Tai
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old Thai
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Thai
Language Position
5747
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Thai Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
th
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
tha
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
tha
ISO 639 3
ibo
tha
ISO 639 6
ibo
tha
Glottocode
nucl1417
thai1261
Linguasphere
No data available
47-AAA-b
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic, Isolating