Countries
Nigeria
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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.
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
kedụ
  
hallo
  
Thank You
dalụ
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
ka chi fo
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
Biko
  
bitte
  
Sorry
Ndo
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
Not Available
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Enuani
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Ngwa
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
22
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
229.00 million
  
8
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
igbo
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Ibo
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
igbo
  
allemand
  
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Igbo people
  
Germans
  
Origin
30th Century BC
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Kwa
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ig
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
ibo
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
nucl1417
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Igbo and German Speaking population
Igbo and German speaking population is one of the factors based on which Igbo and German languages can be compared. The total count of Igbo and German Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Igbo language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking German language is 1.39 %. 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 German on Igbo vs German where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Igbo and German Language Codes
Igbo and German language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Igbo and German Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.