Countries
Nigeria
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
Gambia, Nigeria
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Nigeria
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Benin, Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Sudan, Togo
  
Equatorial Guinea
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
Interesting Facts
- Hausa language is the most important and the best known of the Chadic branch.
- There are about one-fourth of Hausa words come from Arabic.
  
- 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
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Hausa-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
sannu
  
kedụ
  
Thank You
gode ku
  
dalụ
  
How Are You?
yaya dai
  
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Good Night
mai kyau dare
  
ka chi fo
  
Good Evening
barka da yamma
  
mgbede ọma
  
Good Afternoon
barka da rana
  
ehihie ọma
  
Good Morning
mai kyau safe
  
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Please
Don Allah
  
Biko
  
Sorry
yi hakuri
  
Ndo
  
Bye
sai anjima
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
Ina son ku
  
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Excuse Me
gafara dai
  
ngọpụ
  
Dialect 1
Gaananci
  
Enuani
  
Where They Speak
Ghana
  
Nigeria
  
Dialect 2
Kurhwayanci
  
Ngwa
  
Where They Speak
Niger
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,500,000.00
  
22
Dialect 3
Daragaram
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Niger
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
50.00 million
  
28
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
35.00 million
  
27
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
15.00 million
  
18
Not Available
  
Native Name
حَوْسَ (ḥawsa)
  
igbo
  
Alternative Names
Abakwariga, Habe, Haoussa, Hausawa, Kado, Mgbakpa
  
Ibo
  
French Name
haoussa
  
igbo
  
German Name
Haussa-Sprache
  
Ibo-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[iɡ͡boː]
  
Ethnicity
Hausa–Fulani people
  
Igbo people
  
Origin
14
  
30th Century BC
  
Language Family
Afro-Asiatic Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Chadic
  
Kwa
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Hausa
  
Standard Igbo
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ha
  
ig
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
hau
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 2/B
hau
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 3
hau
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
haus1257
  
nucl1417
  
Linguasphere
19-HAA-b
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional
  
Agglutinative
  
Hausa 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 Hausa and Igbo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Hausa and Igbo language. Hausa word for "Hello" is sannu or Igbo word for "Thank You" is dalụ. Find more of such common Hausa Greetings and Igbo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Hausa vs Igbo Difficulty
The Hausa vs Igbo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Hausa 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 Hausa and Igbo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Hausa and Igbo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Hausa is 44 weeks while to learn Igbo time required is 52 weeks.