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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Nigeria

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
Bhojpuri
0 46

1.3 National Language

Nigeria

1.4 Second Language

Not spoken in any of the countries

1.5 Speaking Continents

Africa

1.6 Minority Language

Equatorial Guinea

1.7 Regulated By

Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture

1.8 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.

1.9 Similar To

Not Available

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

36
Rank: 18 (Overall)
Irish
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

8
Rank: 5 (Overall)
Hebrew
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

28
Rank: 18 (Overall)
German
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Not Available

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
Bengali
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

52 weeks
Rank: 12 (Overall)
Cebuano
3 88

3 Greetings

3.1 Hello

kedụ

3.2 Thank You

dalụ

3.3 How Are You?

kedụ ka ịmere

3.4 Good Night

ka chi fo

3.5 Good Evening

mgbede ọma

3.6 Good Afternoon

ehihie ọma

3.7 Good Morning

ụtụtụ ọma

3.8 Please

Biko

3.9 Sorry

Ndo

3.10 Bye

Not Available

3.11 I Love You

a hụrụ m gị n'anya

3.12 Excuse Me

ngọpụ

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Enuani

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Nigeria

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Macedonian
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Ngwa

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Nigeria

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

1,500,000.00
Rank: 22 (Overall)
Dzongkha
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Not present

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Not Available

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Romanian
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

20
Rank: 18 (Overall)
Sanskrit
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

25.00 million
Rank: 40 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Xhosa
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

25.00 million
Rank: 32 (Overall)
Abkhaz
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
Finnish
0.01 400

5.3.2 Native Name

igbo

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Ibo

5.3.4 French Name

igbo

5.3.5 German Name

Ibo-Sprache

5.4 Pronunciation

[iɡ͡boː]

5.5 Ethnicity

Igbo people

6 History

6.1 Origin

30th Century BC

6.2 Language Family

Niger-Congo Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Kwa

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

No early forms

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Standard Igbo

6.3.3 Language Position

57
Rank: 42 (Overall)
Chinese
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

ig

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

ibo

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

ibo

7.3 ISO 639 3

ibo

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

nucl1417

7.6 Linguasphere

No data available

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Not Available

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Agglutinative

Origin of Igbo language

In order to communicate with each other, the origin of language was the essential part. Various languages are spoken all over the world. Igbo language is one of the Easiest Languages to Learn. The origin of Igbo language states that it was put to use in 30th Century BC. The history of Igbo language reveals that the language is old and used since many years. Check out in brief about Igbo Language History. Igbo has no early forms. Standard Igbo is the standard form of Igbo language and it is used in government centers. Know all About Igbo Language.

Igbo population

Igbo population gives us the total count of number of people speaking Igbo language. Igbo language is spoken by 25.00 million people in the world. Most of the Igbo population lies in the Igbo Speaking Countries. Igbo language is spoken as first language by 25.00 million people and no total count of people speaking Igbo as second language. Get to know Igbo speaking population in detail.

Igbo writing system

There are numerous writing systems but most widely used scripts are Latin, Cyrillic and Arabic. Igbo writing system decides the alphabets, vowels and consonants i.e. the written form of Igbo language. Some languages share common writing systems. Latin script is used by Igbo language. Learn more about . 

Information about Igbo language

Check out all the information about Igbo language here. You may find it interesting to learn Igbo Alphabets or the vowels and consonants of this language. Also knowing about Igbo Speaking Countries, Igbo speaking continents and Igbo Dialects will help in improving your knowledge about this language. Also while travelling to Igbo countries knowing common Igbo Greetings will help you in communicating with Igbo people.