Countries
Croatia, European Union, Italy, San Marino, Slovenia, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
Italy, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican City
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Albania, Croatia, Malta, Slovenia
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Europe
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Crimea, Eritrea, France, Libya, Monaco, Montenegro, Romania, Somalia
  
Equatorial Guinea
  
Regulated By
Accademia della Crusca (Academy of the bran)
  
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the most romantic and melodic language in the history of the world is Italian.
- Italian Language is in the top three of the most widely spoken European languages in Europe.
  
- 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.
  
Similar To
French and Portuguese Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Italian-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
ciao
  
kedụ
  
Thank You
grazie
  
dalụ
  
How Are You?
Come stai?
  
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Good Night
buonanotte
  
ka chi fo
  
Good Evening
buonasera
  
mgbede ọma
  
Good Afternoon
buon pomeriggio
  
ehihie ọma
  
Good Morning
buongiorno
  
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Please
Per Favore
  
Biko
  
Sorry
scusate
  
Ndo
  
Bye
arrivederci
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
Ti amo
  
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Excuse Me
Scusami
  
ngọpụ
  
Dialect 1
Romanesco
  
Enuani
  
Where They Speak
Lazio
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
3,000,000.00
  
21
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Central Italian
  
Ngwa
  
Where They Speak
Abruzzo, central Marche, Lazio, south Tuscany, Umbria
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
5,000,000.00
  
14
1,500,000.00
  
22
Dialect 3
Tuscan
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Corsica, Gallura, Haute-Corse, Sardinia, Tuscany, Umbria
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
78.00 million
  
21
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
64.00 million
  
18
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
14.00 million
  
20
Not Available
  
Native Name
Italiano
  
igbo
  
Alternative Names
Italiano
  
Ibo
  
French Name
italien
  
igbo
  
German Name
Italienisch
  
Ibo-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[itaˈljaːno]
  
[iɡ͡boː]
  
Ethnicity
Italians
  
Igbo people
  
Origin
960 BC
  
30th Century BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Kwa
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Italian
  
Standard Igbo
  
Signed Forms
italiano segnato "Signed Italian" & italiano segnato esatto "Signed Exact Italian"
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
it
  
ig
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
ita
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 2/B
ita
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 3
ita
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 6
itas
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
ital1282
  
nucl1417
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-q
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Italian and Igbo 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 Italian and Igbo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Italian and Igbo language. Italian word for "Hello" is ciao or Igbo word for "Thank You" is dalụ. Find more of such common Italian Greetings and Igbo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Italian vs Igbo Difficulty
The Italian vs Igbo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Italian Alphabets and Igbo 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 Italian and Igbo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Italian and Igbo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Italian is 24 weeks while to learn Igbo time required is 52 weeks.