Countries
India
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
Bangladesh, India
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Bangladesh, Bhutan
  
Equatorial Guinea
  
Regulated By
Asam Sahitya Sabha
  
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
Interesting Facts
- Assamese was reinstated as the state language of Assam in 1873.
- Assamese language has its own stream of origin, it is evolved in a different way from rest of the Indo-Aryan languages of India.
- 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
Bengali and Oriya
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Assamese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Bengali
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Time Taken to Learn
Not Available
  
Hello
nomoskaar
  
kedụ
  
Thank You
ḍhonyobaaḍ
  
dalụ
  
How Are You?
aapuni kene aase?
  
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Good Night
subhoraattri
  
ka chi fo
  
Good Evening
subha gadhuli
  
mgbede ọma
  
Good Afternoon
subha abeli
  
ehihie ọma
  
Good Morning
suprobhaat
  
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Please
anugroha kori
  
Biko
  
Sorry
moi ḍukkhita
  
Ndo
  
Bye
biḍai
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
moi tomaak bhaalpaao
  
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Excuse Me
kyoma koribo
  
ngọpụ
  
Dialect 1
Kamrupi
  
Enuani
  
Where They Speak
Western Assam
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
6,000,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Goalpariya
  
Ngwa
  
Where They Speak
Western Assam
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,500,000.00
  
22
Dialect 3
Bhakatiya
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Assam
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
15.30 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
15.00 million
  
40
25.00 million
  
32
Native Name
অসমীয়া (asamīẏa)
  
igbo
  
Alternative Names
Asambe, Asami, Asamiya
  
Ibo
  
French Name
assamais
  
igbo
  
German Name
Assamesisch
  
Ibo-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[iɡ͡boː]
  
Ethnicity
Assamese people
  
Igbo people
  
Origin
7th century A.D
  
30th Century BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Kwa
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Kamarupa
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Assamese
  
Standard Igbo
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
as
  
ig
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
asm
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 2/B
asm
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 3
asm
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
assa1263
  
nucl1417
  
Linguasphere
59-AAF-w
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Assamese and Igbo Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Assamese and Igbo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Assamese and Igbo language. Assamese word for "Hello" is nomoskaar or Igbo word for "Thank You" is dalụ. Find more of such common Assamese Greetings and Igbo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Assamese vs Igbo Difficulty
The Assamese vs Igbo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Assamese Alphabets and Igbo Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Assamese and Igbo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Assamese and Igbo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Assamese is Not Available while to learn Igbo time required is 52 weeks.