Countries
India
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
India
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Great Britain, Kenya, Malawi, Oman, Pakistan, Tanzania, Uganda, United States of America, Zambia
  
Equatorial Guinea
  
Regulated By
NA
  
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
Interesting Facts
- Gujarati was the first language of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi("Father of the Nation of India") and Vallabhbhai Patel ("Iron Man of India").
- Most of the words in Gujarati language are adopted from Sanskrit.
  
- 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 Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Gujarati-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Devanagari
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Language Levels
Not Available
  
Hello
નમસ્તે (namaste)
  
kedụ
  
Thank You
ધન્યવાદ (dhanvaad)
  
dalụ
  
How Are You?
કેમ છો (kem cho?)
  
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Good Night
શુભ રાત્રે (shub rātrē)
  
ka chi fo
  
Good Evening
સાંજે સારી (sān̄jē sārī)
  
mgbede ọma
  
Good Afternoon
સારા બપોરે (sārā bapōrē)
  
ehihie ọma
  
Good Morning
સુ પ્રભાત (su prabhat)
  
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Please
કૃપા કરીને(Kr̥pā karīnē)
  
Biko
  
Sorry
મન્ને મફ કરો (manne maaf karo)
  
Ndo
  
Bye
બાય (Bāya)
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
હું તને પ્રેમ કરુ છું (hūṃ tane prem karū chūṃ)
  
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Excuse Me
માફ કરશો (Māpha karaśō)
  
ngọpụ
  
Dialect 1
Kathiyawadi
  
Enuani
  
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Nigeria
  
Dialect 2
Kharwa
  
Ngwa
  
Where They Speak
India, Mauritius, Pakistan, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,500,000.00
  
22
Dialect 3
Not Available
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million
  
27
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
50.00 million
  
22
25.00 million
  
32
Native Name
ગુજરાતી (gujarātī)
  
igbo
  
Alternative Names
Gujerathi, Gujerati, Gujrathi
  
Ibo
  
French Name
goudjrati
  
igbo
  
German Name
Gujarati-Sprache
  
Ibo-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[ɡudʒəˈɾɑːt̪i]
  
[iɡ͡boː]
  
Ethnicity
Gujaratis
  
Igbo people
  
Origin
15
  
30th Century BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
  
Kwa
  
Branch
Indic
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Gujarati
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Modern Gujarati
  
Standard Igbo
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
gu
  
ig
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
guj
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 2/B
guj
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 3
guj
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
guja1252
  
nucl1417
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Agglutinative
  
Gujarati 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 Gujarati and Igbo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Gujarati and Igbo language. Gujarati word for "Hello" is નમસ્તે (namaste) or Igbo word for "Thank You" is dalụ. Find more of such common Gujarati Greetings and Igbo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Gujarati vs Igbo Difficulty
The Gujarati vs Igbo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Gujarati 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 Gujarati and Igbo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Gujarati and Igbo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Gujarati is 18 weeks while to learn Igbo time required is 52 weeks.