Countries
India
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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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
-
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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
Old German Language
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
Prakrit Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5236
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
168
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3628
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks52 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
kedụ
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
dalụ
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
ka chi fo
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
Biko
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Ndo
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
Kachifo
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Not present
Enuani
Where They Speak
-
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
140,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Ngwa
Where They Speak
-
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
140,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
140,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
020
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
14.10 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.01 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
14.10 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
-24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
igbo
Alternative Names
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Ibo
French Name
sanskrit
igbo
German Name
Sanskrit
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Sanskrit speakers
Igbo people
Origin
2000 B.C.
30th Century BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
Kwa
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Standard Igbo
Language Position
2357
1
120
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Signed Forms
-
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sa
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
san
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
san
ibo
ISO 639 3
san
ibo
ISO 639 6
san
ibo
Glottocode
sans1269
nucl1417
Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Ancient
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative