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
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Apa khabar?
kedụ ka ịmere
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Selamat Petang
mgbede ọma
3.6 Good Afternoon
Selamat tengah hari
ehihie ọma
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
Selamat tinggal
Not Available
3.11 I Love You
Saya sayang kamu
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
Nigeria
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,600,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
30,000.001,500,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
3,100,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
175.00 million25.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
77.00 million25.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
[iɡ͡boː]
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
Igbo people
6 History
6.1 Origin
c. 683 AD
30th Century BC
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Niger-Congo Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Standard Igbo
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Malaysian Sign Language
Not Available
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
No data available
No data available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative
Agglutinative