1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Nigeria
China, Jilin Province, North Korea, South Korea, Yanbian
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Nigeria
North Korea, South Korea
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Japan, People's Republic of China, Russia, United States of America
1.7 Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
The National Institute of the Korean Language
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.
- Korean has borrowed words from English and Chinese.
- Korean has two counting systems. First, is based on Chinese characters and numbers are similar to Chinese numbers, and second counting system is from words unique to Korea.
1.9 Similar To
Not Available
Chinese and Japanese languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
kedụ
안녕하세요. (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.2 Thank You
dalụ
감사합니다 (gamsahabnida)
3.3 How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
어떻게 지내세요? (eotteohge jinaeseyo?)
3.4 Good Night
ka chi fo
안녕히 주무세요 (annyeonghi jumuseyo)
3.5 Good Evening
mgbede ọma
안녕하세요 (annyeonghaseyo.)
3.6 Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
안녕하십니까 (annyeong hashimnikka)
3.7 Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
안녕히 주무셨어요 (An-yŏng-hi ju-mu-shŏ-ssŏ-yo)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
Ndo
죄송합니다 (joesonghabnida)
3.10 Bye
Not Available
안녕 (annyeong)
3.11 I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
당신을 사랑합니다 (dangsin-eul salanghabnida)
3.12 Excuse Me
ngọpụ
실례합니다 (sillyehabnida)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA10,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1,500,000.0010,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not Available
China, North Korea
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
25.00 million77.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
25.00 million77.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Ibo
Hanguk Mal, Hanguk Uh
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
30th Century BC
Before 1st century
6.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Koreanic Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old Korean, Middle Korean and Korean
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Pluricentric Standard Korean, South Korean standard and North Korean standard
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Korean Sign Language
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Subject-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative