Countries
India
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal
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
- Santali language was an oral language till nineteenth century.
- Before the invention of Santali alphabets, Santali was written with the Bengali or Odia alphabets.
- 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
Munda Language
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3036
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
68
0
32
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How Many Consonants
2128
9
60
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Scripts
Bengali, Devanagari, Latin, Ol Chiki, Oriya
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Henda ho
kedụ
Thank You
Adi Johar
dalụ
How Are You?
Cet’leka menama?
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
Boge Ninda
ka chi fo
Good Evening
Boge Ayup’
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
संध्यायान
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
Boge Setak’
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
দয়া করে
Biko
Sorry
দুঃখিত
Ndo
Bye
Hariau
Kachifo
I Love You
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲᱤ ᱯᱟᱹᱨᱥᱤ
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
ᱥᱟᱱᱛᱟᱲ
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Mahali
Enuani
Where They Speak
India
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Not present
Ngwa
Where They Speak
-
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Not present
Where They Speak
-
-
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
120
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
6.30 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.02 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
6.30 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
6.50 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
संथाली (sãtʰālī)
igbo
Alternative Names
Har, Hor, Samtali, Sandal, Sangtal, Santal, Santhali, Santhiali, Satar, Sentali, Sonthal
Ibo
French Name
santal
igbo
German Name
Santali
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[sɑnˈtɑli]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Santal and Teraibasi Santali
Igbo people
Origin
20th century
30th Century BC
Language Family
Austroasiatic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
-
Kwa
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Santali
Standard Igbo
Language Position
4157
1
120
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Signed Forms
Santali Sign Language
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
sat
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
sat
ibo
ISO 639 3
sat
ibo
ISO 639 6
sat
ibo
Glottocode
sant1410
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