1 Countries
1.1 Countries
African Union, Democratic Republic of the Congo, East African Community, Kenya
Nigeria
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
2.3 National Language
Burundi, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, South Sudan, Tanzania
Nigeria
2.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
2.5 Speaking Continents
2.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Equatorial Guinea
2.7 Regulated By
Chama cha Kiswahili cha Taifa (Kenya)
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
2.8 Interesting Facts
- Swahili language has borrowed many words from Arabic language.
- The oldest written scripts in swahili language were found in 18th century.
- 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.
2.9 Similar To
Burundi, Rwanda, Malawi Languages
Not Available
2.10 Derived From
Arabic Language
Not Available
3 Alphabets
3.1 Alphabets in
3.2 Alphabets
1.3 Phonology
1.3.1 How Many Vowels
4.3.4 How Many Consonants
7.10 Scripts
7.11 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
7.12 Hard to Learn
7.12.1 Language Levels
10.2.2 Time Taken to Learn
12 Greetings
12.1 Hello
12.2 Thank You
12.3 How Are You?
Habari gani?
kedụ ka ịmere
12.4 Good Night
12.5 Good Evening
Habari za jioni
mgbede ọma
12.6 Good Afternoon
12.7 Good Morning
Habari za asubuhi
ụtụtụ ọma
12.8 Please
12.9 Sorry
12.10 Bye
12.11 I Love You
nakupenda
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
12.12 Excuse Me
13 Dialects
13.1 Dialect 1
13.1.1 Where They Speak
13.1.2 How Many People Speak
13.6 Dialect 2
13.6.1 Where They Speak
13.6.2 How Many People Speak
NA1,500,000.00
700
80000000
13.9 Dialect 3
13.9.1 Where They Speak
13.9.2 How Many People Speak
15.2 Total No. Of Dialects
4 How Many People Speak
4.1 How Many People Speak?
150.00 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
5.3 Speaking Population
1.3 Native Speakers
15.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
1.4.1 Second Language Speakers
3.2.1 Native Name
3.2.2 Alternative Names
3.2.3 French Name
3.2.4 German Name
3.3 Pronunciation
3.4 Ethnicity
Swahili people or Waswahili
Igbo people
4 History
4.1 Origin
6th century
30th Century BC
4.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Niger-Congo Family
4.2.1 Subgroup
4.2.2 Branch
4.3 Language Forms
4.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
4.3.2 Standard Forms
4.3.3 Language Position
2.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
2.4 Scope
Individual, Macrolanguage
Individual
3 Code
3.1 ISO 639 1
3.2 ISO 639 2
3.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
3.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
3.3 ISO 639 3
3.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
3.5 Glottocode
3.6 Linguasphere
99-AUS-m
No data available
3.7 Types of Language
3.7.1 Language Type
3.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
3.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Agglutinative