Countries
Countries
Nigeria
Macedonia
Total No. Of Countries
1
14
1
14
National Language
Nigeria
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Africa
Europe
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
Albania, Romania, Serbia
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Macedonian Language Institute "Krste Misirkov"
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.
- There are plenty of loan words in Macedonian language from the Serbian, Bulgarian and Russian languages.
- The only Indo-European language that make use of the narrative mood is Macedonian language.
Similar To
Not Available
Bulgarian, Polish, Russian and Serbian Languages
Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
Alphabets
Alphabets in
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
Macedonian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
36
18
31
13
Phonology
How Many Vowels
8
5
5
2
How Many Consonants
28
18
26
16
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic, Macedonian Braille
Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
3
2
3
2
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks
12
44 weeks
11
Greetings
Hello
kedụ
Здраво (Zdravo)
Thank You
dalụ
Благодарам (Blagodaram)
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
Како си? (Kako si?)
Good Night
ka chi fo
Добра ноќ (Dobra nok)
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
Добра вечер (Dobra večer)
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
Добар ден (Dobar den)
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
Добро утро (Dobro utro)
Please
Biko
Ве молиме (Ve molime)
Sorry
Ndo
жал (žal)
Bye
Not Available
Чао (Čao)
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Те сакам (Te sakam)
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
Извинете ме (Izvinete me)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Enuani
Torlakian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Bulgaria, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia
How Many People Speak
Not Available
1.50
99+
Dialect 2
Ngwa
Debar
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Macedonia
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
22
Not Available
Dialect 3
Not present
Galičnik
Where They Speak
Not Available
Macedonia
Total No. Of Dialects
20
18
28
23
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
40
2.50 million
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
Not Available
Native Speakers
25.00 million
32
2.50 million
99+
Native Name
igbo
македонски (Makedonski) македонски јазик (makedonski jazik)
Alternative Names
Ibo
Macedonian Slavic, Makedonski, Slavic
French Name
igbo
macédonien
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
Makedonisch
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
[maˈkɛdɔnski ˈjazik]
Ethnicity
Igbo people
Macedonians
History
Origin
30th Century BC
2200 BC
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Kwa
Slavic
Branch
Not Available
Southern
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
Macedonian
Language Position
57
99+
Not Available
Signed Forms
Not Available
Macedonian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
ISO 639 1
ig
mk
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
mkd
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
mac
ISO 639 3
ibo
mkd
ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
Glottocode
nucl1417
mace1250
Linguasphere
No data available
53-AAA-ha
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Analytic
