Countries
Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan
Nigeria
National Language
Russia
Nigeria
Second Language
Afganistan
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Europe
Africa
Minority Language
Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Israel, Jordan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mongolia, Poland, Serbia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Russian Academy, Russian Language Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
Interesting Facts
- In Russian language, the words are not pronounced as they are written.
- In Russian language, there are only 200,000 words out of which only few words are used and due to this many words have more than one meaning.
- 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
Ukrainian and Belarusian Languages
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Derived From
Proto-Slavic Vocabulary
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Alphabets in
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Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hello
здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte)
kedụ
Thank You
спасибо(spasibo)
dalụ
How Are You?
Как дела? (Kak dela?)
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
Спокойной Ночи(Spokoynoy Nochi)
ka chi fo
Good Evening
Добрый Вечер(Dobryy Vecher)
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
Добрый День(Dobryy Den')
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
Доброе Утро(Dobroye Utro)
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
пожалуйста(pozhaluysta)
Biko
Sorry
Извините(Izvinite)
Ndo
Bye
до свидания(do svidaniya)
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I Love You
Я тебя люблю(YA tebya lyublyu)
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
извините(izvinite)
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Doukhobor Russian
Enuani
Where They Speak
Alberta, British Columbia, Canada, Saskatchewan
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Where They Speak
Olonets
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
Not Available
Dialect 3
Novgorod
Not present
Where They Speak
Novgorod
Not Available
Speaking Population
Not Available
Second Language Speakers
Not Available
Alternative Names
Russki
Ibo
German Name
Russisch
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[ˈruskʲɪj jɪˈzɨk]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Russians
Igbo people
Origin
1000 AD
30th Century BC
Language Family
Indo-European Family, Slavic Family
Niger-Congo Family
Branch
Eastern
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Early Forms
Old East Slavic
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Russian
Standard Igbo
Signed Forms
Signed Russian
Not Available
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 6
Not Available
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Glottocode
russ1263
nucl1417
Linguasphere
53-AAA-ea
No data available
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Not Available
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
Agglutinative
Russian 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 Russian and Igbo greetings helps you to understand basic phrases in Russian and Igbo language. Russian word for "Hello" is здравствуйте(zdravstvuyte) or Igbo word for "Thank You" is dalụ. Find more of such common Russian Greetings and Igbo Greetings. These greetings will help you to be more confident when conversing with natives that speak these languages.
Russian vs Igbo Difficulty
The Russian vs Igbo difficulty level basically depends on the number of Russian 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 Russian and Igbo are the origin, speaking countries, language family, different greetings, speaking population of these languages. Want to know in Russian and Igbo, which language is harder to learn? Time required to learn Russian is 44 weeks while to learn Igbo time required is 52 weeks.