Countries
Countries
Nigeria
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Total No. Of Countries
1
14
4
11
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
Alphabets in
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Russian-Alphabets.jpg#200
Alphabets
36
18
33
15
Phonology
How Many Vowels
8
5
10
7
How Many Consonants
28
18
21
11
Scripts
Latin
Cyrillic
Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
3
2
6
5
Time Taken to Learn
52 weeks
12
44 weeks
11
Greetings
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)
Dialects
Dialect 1
Enuani
Doukhobor Russian
Where They Speak
Nigeria
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
How Many People Speak
Not Available
30,000.00
99+
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
Total No. Of Dialects
20
18
13
13
How Many People Speak
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
40
276.00 million
6
Speaking Population
Not Available
2.33 %
9
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
History
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
Language Position
57
99+
7
7
Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed Russian
Scope
Individual
Individual
Code
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
