Countries
Nigeria
  
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
  
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
  
South Africa
  
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
Not Available
  
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.
  
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
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
  
Hello
  
Thank You
dalụ
  
Thank you
  
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
  
How are you?
  
Good Night
ka chi fo
  
Good Night
  
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
  
Good Evening
  
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
  
Good Afternoon
  
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Good Morning
  
Please
Biko
  
Please
  
Sorry
Ndo
  
Sorry
  
Bye
Not Available
  
Bye
  
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
I love you
  
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
  
Excuse Me
  
Dialect 1
Enuani
  
American English
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
United States of America
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
225,000,000.00
  
3
Dialect 2
Ngwa
  
Hiberno-English
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
22
4,500,000.00
  
15
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Welsh English
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
United Kingdom
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
2,500,000.00
  
14
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
1,200.00 million
  
1
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
400.00 million
  
3
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
400.00 million
  
1
Native Name
igbo
  
English
  
Alternative Names
Ibo
  
Not Available
  
French Name
igbo
  
anglais
  
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
  
Englisch
  
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
  
/ˈɪŋɡlɪʃ/
  
Ethnicity
Igbo people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
30th Century BC
  
5th Century AD
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Kwa
  
Not Available
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
  
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
  
Standard English
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed English
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ig
  
en
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
  
eng
  
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
  
eng
  
ISO 639 3
ibo
  
eng
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
engs
  
Glottocode
nucl1417
  
stan1293
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
52-ABA
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic
  
Igbo and English Greetings
People around the world use different languages to interact with each other. Even if we cannot communicate fluently in any language, it will always be beneficial to know about some of the common greetings or phrases from that language. This is where Igbo and English greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Igbo and English language. Igbo word for "Hello" is kedụ or English word for "Thank You" is Thank you. Find more of such common Igbo Greetings and English Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Igbo vs English Difficulty
The Igbo vs English difficulty level basically depends on the number of Igbo Alphabets and English Alphabets. Also the number of vowels and consonants in the language plays an important role in deciding the difficulty level of that language. The important points to be considered when we compare Igbo and English are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Igbo and English, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Igbo is 52 weeks while to learn English time required is 6 weeks.