Countries
Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gabon, Guernesey, Guinea, Haiti, Italy, Jersey, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Monaco, Niger, Rwanda, Senegal, Seychelles, Switzerland, Togo, Vanuatu
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
France
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Africa, Canada
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Equatorial Guinea
  
Regulated By
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
Interesting Facts
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
- 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
Italian Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
French-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
bonjour
  
kedụ
  
Thank You
Merci
  
dalụ
  
How Are You?
Comment allez-vous?
  
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Good Night
bonne Nuit
  
ka chi fo
  
Good Evening
bonsoir
  
mgbede ọma
  
Good Afternoon
bon Après-Midi
  
ehihie ọma
  
Good Morning
Bonjour
  
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Please
S'il vous plaît
  
Biko
  
Sorry
désolé
  
Ndo
  
Bye
au revoir
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
Je t'aime
  
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Excuse Me
Excuse Moi
  
ngọpụ
  
Dialect 1
Quebec French
  
Enuani
  
Where They Speak
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
6,200,000.00
  
15
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
African French
  
Ngwa
  
Where They Speak
Africa
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,500,000.00
  
22
Dialect 3
Swiss French
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
163.00 million
  
11
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
76.00 million
  
13
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
87.00 million
  
11
Not Available
  
Native Name
français
  
igbo
  
Alternative Names
Français
  
Ibo
  
French Name
français
  
igbo
  
German Name
Französisch
  
Ibo-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
[iɡ͡boː]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Igbo people
  
Origin
9th Century
  
30th Century BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Kwa
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old French, Middle French and French
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard French
  
Standard Igbo
  
Signed Forms
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
fr
  
ig
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
fra
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 2/B
fre
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 3
fra
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 6
fras
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1290
  
nucl1417
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-i
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
French 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 French and Igbo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in French and Igbo language. French word for "Hello" is bonjour or Igbo word for "Thank You" is dalụ. Find more of such common French Greetings and Igbo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
French vs Igbo Difficulty
The French vs Igbo difficulty level basically depends on the number of French 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 French and Igbo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in French and Igbo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn French is 24 weeks while to learn Igbo time required is 52 weeks.