Countries
United States of America
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
United States of America
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
North America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Equatorial Guinea
  
Regulated By
Not Available
  
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
Interesting Facts
- Navajo language is tonal language, as it heavily relies on pitch to distinguish between similar words.
- Navajo ethinc group is 2nd largest Native American group.
  
- 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
Apache Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Navajo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Yá'át'ééh
  
kedụ
  
Thank You
Ahéhee'
  
dalụ
  
How Are You?
Ąąʼ haʼíí baa naniná?
  
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Good Night
Yá'át'ééh hiiłchi'į'
  
ka chi fo
  
Good Evening
Yá'át'ééh ałní'íní
  
mgbede ọma
  
Good Afternoon
Yá'át'ééh
  
ehihie ọma
  
Good Morning
Yá'át'ééh abíní
  
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Please
T'aa shoodi
  
Biko
  
Sorry
Not available
  
Ndo
  
Bye
Hágoónee’
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
Ayóó ánííníshí
  
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Excuse Me
Shoohá
  
ngọpụ
  
Dialect 1
Navajo1
  
Enuani
  
Where They Speak
Arizona
  
Nigeria
  
Dialect 2
Navajo2
  
Ngwa
  
Where They Speak
New Mexico
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,500,000.00
  
22
Dialect 3
Navajo3
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Utah
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
1.70 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
1.70 million
  
99+
25.00 million
  
32
Native Name
Diné Bizaad / Dinék'ehjí
  
igbo
  
Alternative Names
Navaho
  
Ibo
  
French Name
navaho
  
igbo
  
German Name
Navajo-Sprache
  
Ibo-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
Not Available
  
[iɡ͡boː]
  
Ethnicity
Navajo people
  
Igbo people
  
Origin
1500 CE
  
30th Century BC
  
Language Family
Dené–Yeniseian Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Athapascan
  
Kwa
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
No early forms
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Navajo
  
Standard Igbo
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Navajo Sign Language
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
nv
  
ig
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
nav
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 2/B
nav
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 3
nav
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
nava1243
  
nucl1417
  
Linguasphere
No data available
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Polysynthetic, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative
  
Navajo 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 Navajo and Igbo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Navajo and Igbo language. Navajo word for "Hello" is Yá'át'ééh or Igbo word for "Thank You" is dalụ. Find more of such common Navajo Greetings and Igbo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Navajo vs Igbo Difficulty
The Navajo vs Igbo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Navajo 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 Navajo and Igbo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Navajo and Igbo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Navajo is 88 weeks while to learn Igbo time required is 52 weeks.