Countries
Nigeria
  
Azerbaijan, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Northern Cyprus, Romania, Turkey
  
National Language
Nigeria
  
Turkey
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa
  
Asia, Europe
  
Minority Language
Equatorial Guinea
  
Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Iraq, Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania
  
Regulated By
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
Turkish Language Association
  
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.
  
- Turkish language oldest written records are found upon stone monuments in Central Asia, in Orhun, Yenisey and Talas regions.
- Turkish language was developed in the Middle East, streching all the way to Eastern Europe.
  
Similar To
Not Available
  
Azerbaijani Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Turkish-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
kedụ
  
Merhaba
  
Thank You
dalụ
  
teşekkür ederim
  
How Are You?
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Nasılsın?
  
Good Night
ka chi fo
  
İyi Geceler
  
Good Evening
mgbede ọma
  
İyi Akşamlar
  
Good Afternoon
ehihie ọma
  
Tünaydın
  
Good Morning
ụtụtụ ọma
  
günaydın
  
Please
Biko
  
lütfen
  
Sorry
Ndo
  
üzgünüm
  
Bye
Not Available
  
Hoşçakal
  
I Love You
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Seni seviyorum
  
Excuse Me
ngọpụ
  
Afedersiniz
  
Dialect 1
Enuani
  
Azerbaijani Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, Russia, Syria, Turkey
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
26,000,000.00
  
9
Dialect 2
Ngwa
  
Crimean Turkish
  
Where They Speak
Nigeria
  
Bulgaria, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
  
How Many People Speak
1,500,000.00
  
22
Dialect 3
Not present
  
Gagauz
  
Where They Speak
Not Available
  
Moldova, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
25.00 million
  
40
75.00 million
  
23
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
25.00 million
  
32
60.00 million
  
20
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
  
15.00 million
  
18
Native Name
igbo
  
Türkçe
  
Alternative Names
Ibo
  
Anatolian, Türkisch
  
French Name
igbo
  
turc
  
German Name
Ibo-Sprache
  
Türkisch
  
Pronunciation
[iɡ͡boː]
  
[ˈtyɾct͡ʃɛ]
  
Ethnicity
Igbo people
  
Turkish
  
Origin
30th Century BC
  
c. 1350
  
Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
  
Turkic Family
  
Subgroup
Kwa
  
Turkic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Southwestern(Oghuz)
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
Old Anatalian Turkish, Ottoman Turkish and Turkish
  
Standard Forms
Standard Igbo
  
Ottoman Turkish(defunct)
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Turkish Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
ig
  
tr
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ibo
  
tur
  
ISO 639 2/B
ibo
  
tur
  
ISO 639 3
ibo
  
tur
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nucl1417
  
nucl1301
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
44-AAB-a
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
  
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
  
Synthetic
  
Igbo and Turkish 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 Turkish greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Igbo and Turkish language. Igbo word for "Hello" is kedụ or Turkish word for "Thank You" is teşekkür ederim. Find more of such common Igbo Greetings and Turkish Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Igbo vs Turkish Difficulty
The Igbo vs Turkish difficulty level basically depends on the number of Igbo Alphabets and Turkish 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 Turkish are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Igbo and Turkish, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Igbo is 52 weeks while to learn Turkish time required is 44 weeks.