Countries
Nigeria
  
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
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
France
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Africa, Canada
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Africa, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, Pacific, South America
  
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
  
Brazil, Cambodia, United States of America, Vietnam
  
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
Académie française (French Academy), Office québécois de la langue française
  
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.
  
- French is the only language, with English, that is taught in every country of the world.
- French is the top language in Culinary Scene.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Italian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
kedụ
  
bonjour
  
Thank You
dalụ
  
Merci
  
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Comment allez-vous?
  
Good Night
ka chi fo
  
bonne Nuit
  
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
  
bonsoir
  
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
  
bon Après-Midi
  
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Bonjour
  
Please
Biko
  
S'il vous plaît
  
Sorry
Ndo
  
désolé
  
Bye
Not Available
  
au revoir
  
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Je t'aime
  
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
  
Excuse Moi
  
Dialect 1
Enuani
  
Quebec French
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
New Brunswick, New England, Ontario, Quebec, Western Canada
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
6,200,000.00
  
15
Dialect 2
Ngwa
  
African French
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Africa
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
22
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Swiss French
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Northeast France, Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
163.00 million
  
11
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
76.00 million
  
13
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
87.00 million
  
11
Native Name
igbo
  
français
  
Alternative Names
Ibo
  
Français
  
French Name
igbo
  
français
  
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
  
Französisch
  
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
  
[fʁɑ̃sɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Igbo people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
30th Century BC
  
9th Century
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Kwa
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old French, Middle French and French
  
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
  
Standard French
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
le Français Signé (Signed French, France)
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ig
  
fr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
  
fra
  
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
  
fre
  
ISO 639 3
ibo
  
fra
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
fras
  
Glottocode
nucl1417
  
stan1290
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
51-AAA-i
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Igbo and French Speaking population
Igbo and French speaking population is one of the factors based on which Igbo and French languages can be compared. The total count of Igbo and French Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Igbo language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking French language is 1.12 %. 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 French on Igbo vs French where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Igbo and French Language Codes
Igbo and French language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Igbo and French Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.