Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
China, Guangdong
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Hawaii
  
Equatorial Guinea
  
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
  
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
  
- 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
Chinese Language
  
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Derived From
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Alphabets in
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Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
您好
  
kedụ
  
Thank You
谢谢
  
dalụ
  
How Are You?
你好吗?
  
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Good Night
晚安
  
ka chi fo
  
Good Evening
晚上好
  
mgbede ọma
  
Good Afternoon
下午好
  
ehihie ọma
  
Good Morning
早上好
  
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Please
请
  
Biko
  
Sorry
遗憾
  
Ndo
  
Bye
再见
  
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I Love You
我爱你
  
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Excuse Me
原谅我
  
ngọpụ
  
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
  
Enuani
  
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
  
Nigeria
  
Dialect 2
Xiguan
  
Ngwa
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,500,000.00
  
22
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
52.00 million
  
21
25.00 million
  
32
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
  
igbo
  
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
  
Ibo
  
French Name
Not Available
  
igbo
  
German Name
Not Available
  
Ibo-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[iɡ͡boː]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Igbo people
  
Origin
17th century
  
30th Century BC
  
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
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Kwa
  
Branch
Not Available
  
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Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
  
Standard Igbo
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
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Scope
Not Available
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
No data available
  
ig
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
Not Available
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 2/B
Not Available
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 3
No data available
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
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Glottocode
cant1236
  
nucl1417
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
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Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
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Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative
  
Cantonese 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 Cantonese and Igbo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Cantonese and Igbo language. Cantonese word for "Hello" is 您好 or Igbo word for "Thank You" is dalụ. Find more of such common Cantonese Greetings and Igbo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Cantonese vs Igbo Difficulty
The Cantonese vs Igbo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Cantonese 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 Cantonese and Igbo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Cantonese and Igbo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Cantonese is 88 weeks while to learn Igbo time required is 52 weeks.