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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Nigeria

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

1.3 National Language

Nigeria

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Africa

1.6 Minority Language

Equatorial Guinea

1.7 Regulated By

Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • 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.

1.9 Similar To

Not Available

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

36
Rank: 18 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

8
Rank: 5 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

28
Rank: 18 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Not Available

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

52 weeks
Rank: 12 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

kedụ

3.2 Thank You

dalụ

3.3 How Are You?

kedụ ka ịmere

3.4 Good Night

ka chi fo

3.5 Good Evening

mgbede ọma

3.6 Good Afternoon

ehihie ọma

3.7 Good Morning

ụtụtụ ọma

3.8 Please

Biko

3.9 Sorry

Ndo

3.10 Bye

Not Available

3.11 I Love You

a hụrụ m gị n'anya

3.12 Excuse Me

ngọpụ

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Enuani

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Nigeria

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Ngwa

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Nigeria

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00
Rank: 22 (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Not present

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Not Available

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

20
Rank: 18 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

25.00 million
Rank: 40 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

25.00 million
Rank: 32 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

igbo

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Ibo

5.3.4 French Name

igbo

5.3.5 German Name

Ibo-Sprache

5.4 Pronunciation

[iɡ͡boː]

5.5 Ethnicity

Igbo people

6 History

6.1 Origin

30th Century BC

6.2 Language Family

Niger-Congo Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Kwa

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Standard Igbo

6.3.3 Language Position

57
Rank: 42 (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

ig

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

ibo

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

ibo

7.3 ISO 639 3

ibo

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

nucl1417

7.6 Linguasphere

No data available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Not Available

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative

Know Alphabets in Igbo

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Igbo Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Igbo Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Igbo. Igbo phonology gives Igbo vowels and Igbo consonants. There are 8 vowels and 28 consonants in Igbo language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Igbo is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Igbo language is given in detail in this section.

All Igbo countries

Want to explore all Igbo countries? About Igbo language serves you with all Igbo Speaking Countries. Countries that use Igbo as official language are called as Igbo countries.

  • Countries that use Igbo as their National Language are: Nigeria.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Igbo as second language are: Igbo is not spoken as second language in any of the countries.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Igbo greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Igbo Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Igbo language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Igbo language.Learn Igbo greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: kedụ
  • Thank you: dalụ
  • Good Morning: ụtụtụ ọma
  • Good Evening: mgbede ọma
  • Good Afternoon: ehihie ọma

All Igbo Language Codes

Get to know all Igbo language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Igbo Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.