1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Nigeria
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Indonesia
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Thailand
Equatorial Guinea
1.7 Regulated By
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
1.8 Interesting Facts
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Indonesian Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Tamil Language
Not Available
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
4.3 Phonology
4.3.1 How Many Vowels
4.5.2 How Many Consonants
4.6 Scripts
4.7 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
4.8 Hard to Learn
4.8.1 Language Levels
4.14.2 Time Taken to Learn
5 Greetings
5.1 Hello
5.2 Thank You
5.3 How Are You?
Apa khabar?
kedụ ka ịmere
5.4 Good Night
5.5 Good Evening
Selamat Petang
mgbede ọma
5.6 Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
ehihie ọma
5.7 Good Morning
5.8 Please
5.9 Sorry
5.10 Bye
Selamat tinggal
Not Available
5.11 I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
5.12 Excuse Me
6 Dialects
6.1 Dialect 1
7.1.1 Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Nigeria
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
10.2 Dialect 2
10.2.1 Where They Speak
10.2.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.001,500,000.00
700
80000000
10.5 Dialect 3
10.6.1 Where They Speak
10.6.3 How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00NA
1400
96000000
10.9 Total No. Of Dialects
12 How Many People Speak
12.1 How Many People Speak?
175.00 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
13.3 Speaking Population
13.6 Native Speakers
77.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
13.7.1 Second Language Speakers
14.3.4 Native Name
14.3.5 Alternative Names
14.3.6 French Name
14.3.7 German Name
14.4 Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[iɡ͡boː]
14.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Igbo people
15 History
15.1 Origin
c. 683 AD
30th Century BC
15.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Niger-Congo Family
15.2.1 Subgroup
15.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
15.3 Language Forms
15.3.1 Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
No early forms
15.3.2 Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Standard Igbo
15.3.3 Language Position
17.8.4 Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Not Available
17.9 Scope
18 Code
18.1 ISO 639 1
18.2 ISO 639 2
18.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
18.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
18.3 ISO 639 3
18.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
18.5 Glottocode
18.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
18.7 Types of Language
18.7.1 Language Type
18.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
18.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative