Countries
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
111
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Turkey
Nigeria
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Turkish Language Association
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Interesting Facts
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
- 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
Azerbaijani Language
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2936
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
88
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2128
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Latin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
63
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Merhaba
kedụ
Thank You
teşekkür ederim
dalụ
How Are You?
Nasılsın?
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
İyi Geceler
ka chi fo
Good Evening
İyi Akşamlar
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
Tünaydın
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
günaydın
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
lütfen
Biko
Sorry
üzgünüm
Ndo
Bye
Hoşçakal
Kachifo
I Love You
Seni seviyorum
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
Afedersiniz
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Azerbaijani Turkish
Enuani
Where They Speak
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
26,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Crimean Turkish
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
480,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Gagauz
Not present
Where They Speak
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
-
How Many People Speak
140,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
920
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
75.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.95 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
60.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Türkçe
igbo
Alternative Names
Anatolian, Türkisch
Ibo
French Name
turc
igbo
German Name
Türkisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Turkish
Igbo people
Origin
c. 1350
30th Century BC
Language Family
Turkic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Turkic
Kwa
Branch
Southwestern(Oghuz)
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
No early forms
Standard Forms
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
Standard Igbo
Language Position
1957
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Turkish Sign Language
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
tr
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tur
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
tur
ibo
ISO 639 3
tur
ibo
ISO 639 6
tur
ibo
Glottocode
nucl1301
nucl1417
Linguasphere
44-AAB-a
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
-
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
Agglutinative