Countries
Estonia, European Union
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
Estonia, Gambia
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Denmark, Russia, Sweden
  
Equatorial Guinea
  
Regulated By
Institute of the Estonian Language
  
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
Interesting Facts
- Estonian language is considered to be powerful symbol of Estonian identity and culture.
- Estonian language has adopted many words with Finnish language.
  
- 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
Finnish
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Estonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Tere
  
kedụ
  
Thank You
aitäh
  
dalụ
  
How Are You?
kuidas sul läheb
  
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Good Night
Head ööd
  
ka chi fo
  
Good Evening
Tere õhtust
  
mgbede ọma
  
Good Afternoon
Tere päevast
  
ehihie ọma
  
Good Morning
Tere hommikust
  
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Please
Palun
  
Biko
  
Sorry
Vabandust
  
Ndo
  
Bye
Head aega
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
ma armastan sind
  
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Excuse Me
Vabandage
  
ngọpụ
  
Dialect 1
Keskmurre
  
Enuani
  
Where They Speak
Gabon, Northeastern coast of Estonia
  
Nigeria
  
Dialect 2
Tartu
  
Ngwa
  
Where They Speak
Georgia, South Estonia
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,500,000.00
  
22
Dialect 3
Idamurre
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
France, Northwestern shore of Lake Peipsi.
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.10 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
0.95 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Native Name
eesti keel
  
igbo
  
Alternative Names
Eesti keel
  
Ibo
  
French Name
estonien
  
igbo
  
German Name
Estnisch
  
Ibo-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[iɡ͡boː]
  
Ethnicity
Estonians
  
Igbo people
  
Origin
13th century
  
30th Century BC
  
Language Family
Uralic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Finno-Ugric
  
Kwa
  
Branch
Finnic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Estonian
  
Standard Igbo
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Estonian Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Macrolanguage
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
et
  
ig
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
est
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 2/B
est
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 3
est
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
esto1258
  
nucl1417
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Agglutinative
  
Estonian 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 Estonian and Igbo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Estonian and Igbo language. Estonian word for "Hello" is Tere or Igbo word for "Thank You" is dalụ. Find more of such common Estonian Greetings and Igbo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Estonian vs Igbo Difficulty
The Estonian vs Igbo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Estonian 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 Estonian and Igbo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Estonian and Igbo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Estonian is 44 weeks while to learn Igbo time required is 52 weeks.