Countries
Nigeria
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Chad, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, United Arab Emirates, Yemen
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Africa, Asia
  
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
Academy of the Arabic Language, Arabic Language International Council
  
Interesting Facts
- 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.
  
- Arabic is 5th common language in world.
- Classical Arabic is the language of Quran and also it is official language. Classical Arabic is the only way to learn Arabic language in academic way and it does not change.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Amharic and Hebrew
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Arabic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Right-To-Left, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
kedụ
  
مرحبا
  
Thank You
dalụ
  
شكرا
  
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
  
كيف حالك؟
  
Good Night
ka chi fo
  
تصبح على خير
  
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
  
مساء الخير
  
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
  
صباح الخير
  
Please
Biko
  
من فضلك
  
Sorry
Ndo
  
آسف
  
Bye
Not Available
  
وداعا
  
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
أحبك
  
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
  
اعذرني
  
Dialect 1
Enuani
  
Maghrebi
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Algeria, Libya, Maghreb, Morocco, Tunisia
  
Dialect 2
Ngwa
  
Sudanese
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Sudan
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
22
17,000,000.00
  
6
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Levantine
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Cyprus, Levant
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
21,000,000.00
  
3
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
452.00 million
  
4
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
206.00 million
  
6
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
246.00 million
  
2
Native Name
igbo
  
(al arabiya) العربية
  
Alternative Names
Ibo
  
Al-’Arabiyya, Al-Fusha, Literary Arabic
  
French Name
igbo
  
arabe
  
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
  
Arabisch
  
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
  
/al ʕarabijja/, /ʕarabi/
  
Ethnicity
Igbo people
  
Arabs
  
Origin
30th Century BC
  
512 CE
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Afro-Asiatic Family, Semitic Family
  
Subgroup
Kwa
  
Semitic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
North Arabic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
  
Modern Standard Arabic
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Arabic
  
Scope
Individual
  
Macrolanguage
  
ISO 639 1
ig
  
ar
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
  
ara
  
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
  
ara
  
ISO 639 3
ibo
  
ara
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1417
  
arab1395
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
12-AAC
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Igbo and Arabic Speaking population
Igbo and Arabic speaking population is one of the factors based on which Igbo and Arabic languages can be compared. The total count of Igbo and Arabic Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Igbo language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Arabic language is 4.43 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Igbo and Arabic on Igbo vs Arabic where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Igbo and Arabic Language Codes
Igbo and Arabic language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Igbo and Arabic Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.