Countries
Indonesia
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Indonesia
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
-
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Interesting Facts
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
- 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
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2736
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2128
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
43
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
36 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Halo
kedụ
Thank You
matur nuwun
dalụ
How Are You?
piye kabare?
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
wengi sing apik
ka chi fo
Good Evening
Sugeng sọnten
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
Sugeng siang
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
Sugeng énjing
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
matur nuwun
Biko
Sorry
Nyuwun pangapunten
Ndo
Bye
Kepanggih malih benjang
Kachifo
I Love You
Kula tresna panjengan
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
Nuwun séwu
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Pekalongan
Enuani
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Cirebon
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Indonesia
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Arekan
Not present
Where They Speak
Indonesia
-
How Many People Speak
82,000,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1620
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
82.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.25 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
76.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
82.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
basa Jawa
igbo
Alternative Names
Djawa, Jawa
Ibo
French Name
javanais
igbo
German Name
Javanisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Igbo people
Origin
450 AD
30th Century BC
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Kwa
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Javanese
Standard Igbo
Language Position
1157
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Javanese Sign Language
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
jv
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
jav
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
jav
ibo
ISO 639 3
jav
ibo
ISO 639 6
jav
ibo
Glottocode
java1253
nucl1417
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative