Countries
European Union, Moldova, Romania, Serbia, Transnistria, Ukraine
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
61
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Moldova, Romania
Nigeria
Second Language
Kazakhstan, Russia
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Hungary, Serbia, Ukraine
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Academia de Ştiinţe a Moldovei, Institutul de Lingvisticǎ al Academiei Române (Institute for Li
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Interesting Facts
- Romanian language has distinct type of grammar and phonology compared to other Romance languages.
- The earliest text of Romance language was found in the year 1521.
- 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
French, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese and Italian Languages.
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
Latin
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3136
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
78
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2028
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
24 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
alo
kedụ
Thank You
multumesc
dalụ
How Are You?
ce mai faci?
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
noapte Buna
ka chi fo
Good Evening
buna Seara
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
buna Ziua
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
bună Dimineața
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
Vă Rog
Biko
Sorry
scuze
Ndo
Bye
La revedere
Kachifo
I Love You
Te iubesc
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
Scuza-Ma
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Aromanian
Enuani
Where They Speak
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Turkey
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
250,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Megleno-Romanian
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Greece, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Turkey
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
5,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Istro-Romanian
Not present
Where They Speak
Croatia
-
How Many People Speak
1,400.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
1020
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
28.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.37 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
24.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
4.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Română
igbo
Alternative Names
Daco-Rumanian, Moldavian, Rumanian
Ibo
French Name
roumain; moldave
igbo
German Name
Rumänisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[roˈmɨnə]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Romanians
Igbo people
Origin
1521
30th Century BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Kwa
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Romanian
No early forms
Standard Forms
Romanian
Standard Igbo
Language Position
3657
1
120
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Signed Forms
Romanian Sign Language
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
ro
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ron
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
rum
ibo
ISO 639 3
ron
ibo
ISO 639 6
ron
ibo
Glottocode
roma1327
nucl1417
Linguasphere
51-AAD-c
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative