Countries
India
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
India
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Govenment of Goa
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Interesting Facts
- Fr. Thomas Stevan wrote the first book in Konkani in 1651.
- Sahitya Academy recognized konkani as a language in year 1976.
- 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
Marathi
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5236
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
168
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
3628
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
4 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Namaskar
kedụ
Thank You
Dev Borem Korum
dalụ
How Are You?
kaso assa?
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
Rati Boren Zavonn
ka chi fo
Good Evening
Sanj Borem Zavonn
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
संध्याकाळ शुभेच्छा
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
Dis Borem Zavonn
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
Chike
Biko
Sorry
Maf kor
Ndo
Bye
Adeus
Kachifo
I Love You
hav tujo mog korta.
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
upkar korxi
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Antruz
Enuani
Where They Speak
Goa
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
2,500,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Ngwa
Where They Speak
-
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
2,700,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
7.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
120
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.40 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.40 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
8.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kōṅkaṇī
igbo
Alternative Names
Konkan standard, Bankoti, Kunabi, North Konkan, Central Konkan, Concorinum, Cugani, Konkanese
Ibo
French Name
konkani
igbo
German Name
Konkani
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
kõkɳi
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Konkanis
Igbo people
Origin
1209 A.D.
30th Century BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Kwa
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Kokani
Standard Igbo
Language Position
2357
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Indian Signing System (ISS)
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kok
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
kok
ibo
ISO 639 3
kok
ibo
ISO 639 6
kok
ibo
Glottocode
goan1235
nucl1417
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative