Countries
Burkina Faso
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory coast, Mali, Togo
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
-
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Interesting Facts
- Mossi languages use pitch to distinguish meanings.
- Mossi is the 2nd largest ethnic group in Ivory Coast.
- 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
Dagbani Language
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2636
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1628
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
-
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
30 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Kia ora
kedụ
Thank You
Laafi bala
dalụ
How Are You?
Laafi beme ?
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
Ne y yungo
ka chi fo
Good Evening
ne y zabre
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
Kia ora
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
Ne y yibeogo
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
gafare
Biko
Sorry
gafare
Ndo
Bye
Wend na kon-d nindaare
Kachifo
I Love You
Kei te aroha au ki a koe
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
Y gafare
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Ouapadoupou
Enuani
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Saremde
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Taolende
Not present
Where They Speak
Burkina Faso
-
How Many People Speak
7,000,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
820
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
7.60 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.11 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
7.60 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
5.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Mosse
igbo
Alternative Names
Mossi, Mòoré, Mooré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi, Mòoré, Moré, More, Moshi, Mole, Mosi
Ibo
French Name
moré
igbo
German Name
Mossi-Sprache
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[mɔ̀ːsì]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Mossi
Igbo people
Origin
11th Century AD
30th Century BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Kwa
Branch
Gur (Voltaic)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Mossi
Standard Igbo
Language Position
3757
1
120
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Signed Forms
Mossi Sign Language
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data Available
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
mos
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
mos
ibo
ISO 639 3
mos
ibo
ISO 639 6
mos
ibo
Glottocode
moss1236
nucl1417
Linguasphere
No data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative