Countries
Nigeria
  
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
Spain
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
  
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
  
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
  
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.
  
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
French Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Latin
  
Alphabets in
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Spanish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
kedụ
  
hola
  
Thank You
dalụ
  
Gracias
  
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Cómo estás?
  
Good Night
ka chi fo
  
Buenas Noches
  
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
  
Bonne soirée
  
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
  
Buenas Tardes
  
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Buenos Días
  
Please
Biko
  
Por Favor
  
Sorry
Ndo
  
triste
  
Bye
Not Available
  
adiós
  
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Te Quiero
  
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
  
Discúlpeme
  
Dialect 1
Enuani
  
Mexican Spanish
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Mexico
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
105,000,000.00
  
5
Dialect 2
Ngwa
  
Cuban Spanish
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Cuba
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
22
11,000,000.00
  
8
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Puerto Rican Spanish
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Puerto Rico
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
3,900,000.00
  
9
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
489.00 million
  
3
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
410.00 million
  
2
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
89.50 million
  
9
Native Name
igbo
  
Español
  
Alternative Names
Ibo
  
Castellano, Castilian, Español
  
French Name
igbo
  
espagnol; castillan
  
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
  
Spanisch
  
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
  
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
  
Ethnicity
Igbo people
  
Not Available
  
Origin
30th Century BC
  
210 BC
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Kwa
  
Romance
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Spanish and Spanish
  
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
  
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed Spanish
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ig
  
es
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
  
spa
  
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
  
spa
  
ISO 639 3
ibo
  
spa
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1417
  
stan1288
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
51-AAA-b
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Igbo and Spanish 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 Spanish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Igbo and Spanish language. Igbo word for "Hello" is kedụ or Spanish word for "Thank You" is Gracias. Find more of such common Igbo Greetings and Spanish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Igbo vs Spanish Difficulty
The Igbo vs Spanish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Igbo Alphabets and Spanish 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 Spanish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Igbo and Spanish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Igbo is 52 weeks while to learn Spanish time required is 24 weeks.