Countries
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
51
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
North Korea, South Korea
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa
Minority Language
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
The National Institute of the Korean Language
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Interesting Facts
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
- 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
Chinese and Japanese languages
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4036
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
218
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1928
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Hangul
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
kedụ
Thank You
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
dalụ
How Are You?
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
ka chi fo
Good Evening
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
하십시오 (hasibsio)
Biko
Sorry
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
Ndo
Bye
안녕 (annyeong)
Kachifo
I Love You
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Jeju
Enuani
Where They Speak
South Korea
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
10,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Gyeongsang
Ngwa
Where They Speak
South Korea
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
10,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hamgyŏng
Not present
Where They Speak
China, North Korea
-
How Many People Speak
77,000,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1220
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
77.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.14 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
77.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
77.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
한국어 (조선말)
igbo
Alternative Names
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
Ibo
French Name
coréen
igbo
German Name
Koreanisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[hangukmal]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Koreans
Igbo people
Origin
Before 1st century
30th Century BC
Language Family
Koreanic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Kwa
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
No early forms
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
Standard Igbo
Language Position
1257
1
120
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Signed Forms
Korean Sign Language
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ko
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
kor
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
kor
ibo
ISO 639 3
Kor
ibo
ISO 639 6
kor
ibo
Glottocode
kore1280
nucl1417
Linguasphere
45-AAA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative