Countries
Nigeria
Ukraine
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Nigeria
Ukraine
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine: Institute for the Ukrainian Language
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.
- Ukrainian Language is second most widespread among the Slavic languages after the Russian Language.
- Ukrainian Language is among the top three most melodious language in the world.
Similar To
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Russian and Belarusian Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3633
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
86
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2822
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Ukrainian Braille
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
kedụ
Здравствуйте (Zdravstvuyte)
Thank You
dalụ
Дякую (Dyakuyu)
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Як ти поживаєш? (Jak ty požyvajesh?)
Good Night
ka chi fo
На добраніч (Na dobranič)
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Доброго вечора (Dobroho večora)
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
Доброго дня (Dobroho dnia)
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
Доброго ранку! (Dobroho ranku)
Please
Biko
будь ласк
Sorry
Ndo
вибачте (vybachte)
Bye
Kachifo
до побачення (do pobachennya)
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
я тебе люблю (ya tebe lyublyu)
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
Перепрошую! (Pereprošuju)
Dialect 1
Enuani
Podillian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
North Odessa Oblast, South Khmelnytskyi, South Vinnytsia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0042,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Ngwa
Volynian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Rivne, Volyn
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0044,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
Steppe
Where They Speak
-
South Ukraine, Southeastern Ukraine
How Many People Speak
24.0042,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
2015
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million39.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.09 %0.46 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
25.00 million39.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
24.00 million30.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
igbo
Українська (Ukrajins'ka)
Alternative Names
Ibo
Ukrayins'ka Mova
French Name
igbo
ukrainien
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Ukrainisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[ukrɑˈjiɲsʲkɐ ˈmɔwɐ]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Ukrainians
Origin
30th Century BC
1561
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Slavic
Branch
-
Eastern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Old East Slavic, Ukrainian
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Modern Ukrainian
Language Position
5726
1
120
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Signed Forms
Igbo Sign Language
Ukrainian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ig
uk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
ukr
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
ukr
ISO 639 3
ibo
ukr
ISO 639 6
ibo
ukr
Glottocode
nucl1417
ukra1253
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-eda to 53-AAA-edq
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Fusional, Synthetic