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Countries

Countries

Japan
Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Japan
Nigeria

Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Pacific
Africa

Minority Language

Palau
Equatorial Guinea

Regulated By

Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture

Interesting Facts

  • In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
  • 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.

Similar To

Korean Language
Yoruba and Hausa Languages

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

9936
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

58
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1428
9 60
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Scripts

Kana
Latin

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

53
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

88 weeks52 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
kedụ

Thank You

ありがとう (Arigatō)
dalụ

How Are You?

お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
kedụ ka ịmere

Good Night

おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
ka chi fo

Good Evening

こんばんは (Konbanwa)
mgbede ọma

Good Afternoon

こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
ehihie ọma

Good Morning

おはよう (Ohayō)
ụtụtụ ọma

Please

お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
Biko

Sorry

ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
Ndo

Bye

さようなら (Sayōnara)
Kachifo

I Love You

愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya

Excuse Me

すみません (Sumimasen)
ngọpụ

Dialects

Dialect 1

Sanuki
Enuani

Where They Speak

Kagawa
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

1,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hakata
Ngwa

Where They Speak

Fukuoka
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.001,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Kansai
Not present

Where They Speak

kansai
-

How Many People Speak

127,000,000.0024.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

3120
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

128.00 million25.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

1.90 %0.09 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

128.00 million25.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

3.00 million24.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

日本語
igbo

Alternative Names

Nihongo
Ibo

French Name

japonais
igbo

German Name

Japanisch
Ibo-Sprache

Pronunciation

/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[iɡ͡boː]

Ethnicity

Japanese (Yamato)
Igbo people

History

Origin

1185
30th Century BC

Language Family

Japonic Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

-
Kwa

Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
No early forms

Standard Forms

Japanese
Standard Igbo

Language Position

857
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Japanese
Igbo Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ja
ig

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

jpn
ibo

ISO 639 2/B

jpn
ibo

ISO 639 3

jpn
ibo

ISO 639 6

jpn
ibo

Glottocode

nucl1643
nucl1417

Linguasphere

45-CAA-a
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Subject-Object-Verb
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Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative

Japanese and Igbo Alphabets

Japanese and Igbo Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Japanese and Igbo. In Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters while in Igbo Alphabets there are 36 letters. To learn Japanese and Igbo languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Japanese and Igbo languages. The Japanese phonology consist Japanese vowels and Japanese consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Japanese greetings vs Igbo greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Japanese and Igbo are Most Spoken Languages.

All Japanese and Igbo Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Japanese and Igbo dialects. Various dialects of Japanese and Igbo language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Japanese are spoken in different Japanese Speaking Countries whereas Igbo Dialects are spoken in different Igbo speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Japanese vs Igbo Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Japanese dialects include: Sanuki, Hakata. Igbo dialects include: Enuani , Ngwa. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Japanese and Igbo Speaking population

Japanese and Igbo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Japanese and Igbo languages can be compared. The total count of Japanese and Igbo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Igbo language is 0.09 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Japanese and Igbo on Japanese vs Igbo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Japanese and Igbo Language Codes

Japanese and Igbo language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Japanese and Igbo Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.