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Countries

Countries

India, Pakistan
Nigeria

Total No. Of Countries

21
0 46
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National Language

Pakistan
Nigeria

Second Language

Pakistan
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Oceania
Africa

Minority Language

India
Equatorial Guinea

Regulated By

National Council for Promotion of Urdu Language, India, National Language Authority, Pakistan
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture

Interesting Facts

  • Urdu is a language of beauty and grace, that adds meaning to prose and charm to poetry.
  • Different languages such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish gave birth and richness to Urdu.
  • 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

Arabic and Hindi Languages
Yoruba and Hausa Languages

Derived From

Ghaznavid Persian Language
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Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

5236
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

108
0 32
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How Many Consonants

4028
9 60
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Scripts

Arabic
Latin

Writing Direction

Right-To-Left, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn

Language Levels

43
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks52 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

خوش آمديد
kedụ

Thank You

آپ کا شکریہ
dalụ

How Are You?

آپ کیسے ہیں؟
kedụ ka ịmere

Good Night

گڈ نائٹ
ka chi fo

Good Evening

سلام علیکم
mgbede ọma

Good Afternoon

گڈ آفٹر نون
ehihie ọma

Good Morning

گڈ مارننگ
ụtụtụ ọma

Please

براہ مہربانی
Biko

Sorry

معاف کرنا
Ndo

Bye

الوداع
Kachifo

I Love You

مجھے تم سے محبت
a hụrụ m gị n'anya

Excuse Me

معاف کیجئے گا
ngọpụ

Dialects

Dialect 1

Dakhini
Enuani

Where They Speak

India
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

11,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Hyderabadi Urdu
Ngwa

Where They Speak

India
Nigeria

How Many People Speak

69,000,000.001,500,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Rekhta
Not present

Where They Speak

South Asia
-

How Many People Speak

69,000,000.0024.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

320
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

104.00 million25.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.99 %0.09 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

61.00 million25.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

43.00 million24.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

اُردُو
igbo

Alternative Names

Bihari
Ibo

French Name

ourdou
igbo

German Name

Urdu
Ibo-Sprache

Pronunciation

[ˈʊrd̪u]
[iɡ͡boː]

Ethnicity

Urdu-speaking people
Igbo people

History

Origin

12th Century CE
30th Century BC

Language Family

Indo-European Family
Niger-Congo Family

Subgroup

Indo-Iranian
Kwa

Branch

Indic
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Language Forms

Early Forms

No early forms
No early forms

Standard Forms

Modern Standard Urdu
Standard Igbo

Language Position

2057
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Urdu
Igbo Sign Language

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

ur
ig

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

urd
ibo

ISO 639 2/B

urd
ibo

ISO 639 3

urd
ibo

ISO 639 6

urd
ibo

Glottocode

urdu1245
nucl1417

Linguasphere

59-AAF-q
No data available

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

-
-

Language Morphological Typology

Fusional
Agglutinative

Urdu and Igbo Alphabets

Urdu and Igbo Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Urdu and Igbo. In Urdu Alphabets there are 52 letters while in Igbo Alphabets there are 36 letters. To learn Urdu and Igbo languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Urdu and Igbo languages. The Urdu phonology consist Urdu vowels and Urdu consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Urdu greetings vs Igbo greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Urdu and Igbo are Most Spoken Languages.

All Urdu and Igbo Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Urdu and Igbo dialects. Various dialects of Urdu and Igbo language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Urdu are spoken in different Urdu Speaking Countries whereas Igbo Dialects are spoken in different Igbo speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Urdu vs Igbo Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Urdu dialects include: Dakhini, Hyderabadi Urdu. Igbo dialects include: Enuani , Ngwa. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Urdu and Igbo Speaking population

Urdu and Igbo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Urdu and Igbo languages can be compared. The total count of Urdu and Igbo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Urdu language is 0.99 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Igbo language is 0.09 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Urdu and Igbo on Urdu vs Igbo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Urdu and Igbo Language Codes

Urdu and Igbo language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Urdu and Igbo Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.