Countries
Andora, Argentina, Aruba, Australia, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, France, Gibraltar, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Latvia, Luxembourg, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay, Venezuela, Western Sahara
  
Nigeria
  
National Language
Spain
  
Nigeria
  
Second Language
Andora, Aruba, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Belize, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Luxembourg, Morocco, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Switzerland, Trinidad and Tobago, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States of America, US Virgin Islands
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America
  
Africa
  
Minority Language
Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, United Kingdom
  
Equatorial Guinea
  
Regulated By
Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española
  
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
  
Interesting Facts
- One of the world's most phonetic language is Spanish.
- Up to the 18th century, Spanish was diplomatic language.
  
- 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 Language
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Latin
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
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Igbo-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Latin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Not Available
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
hola
  
kedụ
  
Thank You
Gracias
  
dalụ
  
How Are You?
Cómo estás?
  
kedụ ka ịmere
  
Good Night
Buenas Noches
  
ka chi fo
  
Good Evening
Bonne soirée
  
mgbede ọma
  
Good Afternoon
Buenas Tardes
  
ehihie ọma
  
Good Morning
Buenos Días
  
ụtụtụ ọma
  
Please
Por Favor
  
Biko
  
Sorry
triste
  
Ndo
  
Bye
adiós
  
Not Available
  
I Love You
Te Quiero
  
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
  
Excuse Me
Discúlpeme
  
ngọpụ
  
Dialect 1
Mexican Spanish
  
Enuani
  
Where They Speak
Mexico
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
105,000,000.00
  
5
Not Available
  
Dialect 2
Cuban Spanish
  
Ngwa
  
Where They Speak
Cuba
  
Nigeria
  
How Many People Speak
11,000,000.00
  
8
1,500,000.00
  
22
Dialect 3
Puerto Rican Spanish
  
Not present
  
Where They Speak
Puerto Rico
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
3,900,000.00
  
9
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
489.00 million
  
3
25.00 million
  
40
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
410.00 million
  
2
25.00 million
  
32
Second Language Speakers
89.50 million
  
9
Not Available
  
Native Name
Español
  
igbo
  
Alternative Names
Castellano, Castilian, Español
  
Ibo
  
French Name
espagnol; castillan
  
igbo
  
German Name
Spanisch
  
Ibo-Sprache
  
Pronunciation
[espaˈɲol], [kasteˈʎano]
  
[iɡ͡boː]
  
Ethnicity
Not Available
  
Igbo people
  
Origin
210 BC
  
30th Century BC
  
Language Family
Indo-European Family
  
Niger-Congo Family
  
Subgroup
Romance
  
Kwa
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Old Spanish and Spanish
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Pluricentric Standard Spanish
  
Standard Igbo
  
Signed Forms
Signed Spanish
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
es
  
ig
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
spa
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 2/B
spa
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 3
spa
  
ibo
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
stan1288
  
nucl1417
  
Linguasphere
51-AAA-b
  
No data available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
  
Agglutinative