Countries
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Equatorial Guinea
  
Regulated By
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
Interesting Facts
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
- 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
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Arabic
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
مرحبا
  
kedụ
  
Thank You
شكرا
  
dalụ
  
How Are You?
كيف حالك؟
  
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Good Night
تصبح على خير
  
ka chi fo
  
Good Evening
مساء الخير
  
mgbede ọma
  
Good Afternoon
مساء الخير
  
ehihie ọma
  
Good Morning
صباح الخير
  
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Please
من فضلك
  
Biko
  
Sorry
آسف
  
Ndo
  
Bye
وداعا
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
أحبك
  
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Excuse Me
اعذرني
  
ngọpụ
  
Dialect 1
Maghrebi
  
Enuani
  
Where They Speak
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Nigeria
  
Dialect 2
Sudanese
  
Ngwa
  
Where They Speak
Sudan
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
17,000,000.00
  
6
1,500,000.00
  
22
Dialect 3
Levantine
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Cyprus, Levant
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
21,000,000.00
  
3
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
452.00 million
  
4
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
206.00 million
  
6
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
246.00 million
  
2
Not Available
  
Native Name
(al arabiya) العربية
  
igbo
  
Alternative Names
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
Ibo
  
French Name
arabe
  
igbo
  
German Name
Arabisch
  
Ibo-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
[iɡ͡boː]
  
Ethnicity
Arabs
  
Igbo people
  
Origin
512 CE
  
30th Century BC
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Semitic
  
Kwa
  
Branch
North Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Standard Igbo
  
Signed Forms
Signed Arabic
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ar
  
ig
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ara
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 2/B
ara
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 3
ara
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
arab1395
  
nucl1417
  
Linguasphere
12-AAC
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Arabic and Igbo Speaking population
Arabic and Igbo speaking population is one of the factors based on which Arabic and Igbo languages can be compared. The total count of Arabic and Igbo Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Igbo language is Not Available. 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 Arabic and Igbo on Arabic vs Igbo where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Arabic and Igbo Language Codes
Arabic and Igbo language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Arabic and Igbo Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.