Countries
Nigeria
  
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
Russia
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Afganistan
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
  
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  
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.
  
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
  
Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Cyrillic
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
kedụ
  
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
  
Thank You
dalụ
  
спасибо(spasibo)
  
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
  
Good Night
ka chi fo
  
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
  
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
  
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
  
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
  
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
  
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
  
Please
Biko
  
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
  
Sorry
Ndo
  
Извините(Izvinite)
  
Bye
Not Available
  
до свидания(do svidaniya)
  
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
  
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
  
извините(izvinite)
  
Dialect 1
Enuani
  
Doukhobor Russian
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Ngwa
  
Olonets
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Olonets
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
22
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Novgorod
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Novgorod
  
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
276.00 million
  
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
166.00 million
  
8
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
110.00 million
  
7
Native Name
igbo
  
Русский
  
Alternative Names
Ibo
  
Russki
  
French Name
igbo
  
russe
  
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
  
Russisch
  
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
  
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
  
Ethnicity
Igbo people
  
Russians
  
Origin
30th Century BC
  
1000 AD
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
  
Subgroup
Kwa
  
Slavic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Eastern
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old East Slavic
  
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
  
Standard Russian
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Russian
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ig
  
ru
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
  
rus
  
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
  
rus
  
ISO 639 3
ibo
  
rus
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1417
  
russ1263
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
53-AAA-ea
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Igbo and Russian Speaking population
Igbo and Russian speaking population is one of the factors based on which Igbo and Russian languages can be compared. The total count of Igbo and Russian Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Igbo language is Not Available whereas the percentage of people speaking Russian language is 2.33 %. 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 Russian on Igbo vs Russian where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Igbo and Russian Language Codes
Igbo and Russian language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Igbo and Russian Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.