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 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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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
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
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
3120
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
128.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.90 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
128.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
3.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
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
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
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
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Agglutinative