Countries
Nigeria
  
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
China, Taiwan
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Republic of Brazil
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
  
Indonesia, Malaysia
  
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin 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.
  
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
  
Similar To
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Derived From
Not Available
  
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Alphabets in
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Chinese.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Chinese Characters and derivatives
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
kedụ
  
您好 (Nín hǎo)
  
Thank You
dalụ
  
谢谢 (Xièxiè)
  
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
  
你好吗? (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
  
Good Night
ka chi fo
  
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
  
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
  
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
  
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
  
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
  
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
  
早安 (Zǎo ān)
  
Please
Biko
  
请 (Qǐng)
  
Sorry
Ndo
  
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
  
Bye
Not Available
  
再见 (Zàijiàn)
  
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
  
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
  
劳驾 (Láojià)
  
Dialect 1
Enuani
  
Mandarin
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
960,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 2
Ngwa
  
Wu
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
China, United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
22
80,000,000.00
  
1
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Yue
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
60,000,000.00
  
2
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
1,051.00 million
  
2
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
873.00 million
  
1
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
178.00 million
  
3
Native Name
igbo
  
中文 (zhōngwén)
  
Alternative Names
Ibo
  
Not Available
  
French Name
igbo
  
chinois
  
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
  
Chinesisch
  
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Igbo people
  
Han
  
Origin
30th Century BC
  
1250 BC
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Kwa
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
  
Standard Chinese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ig
  
zh
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
  
zho
  
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
  
chi
  
ISO 639 3
ibo
  
zho
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1417
  
sini1245
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
79-AAA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Analytic, Isolating
  
Igbo and Chinese Speaking population
Igbo and Chinese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Igbo and Chinese languages can be compared. The total count of Igbo and Chinese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Igbo language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Chinese language is 16.00 %. 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 Chinese on Igbo vs Chinese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Igbo and Chinese Language Codes
Igbo and Chinese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Igbo and Chinese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.