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Name:
Igbo
Alternate Name:
Ibo
Spoken in:
Nigeria
Number of speakers:
18,000,000 (Wiesenfeld 1999)
(Ethnologue)
Code:
ibo
Code Authority:
ISO 639-3
Code Standard:
SIL
Families:
Niger-Congo (Niger-Kordofanian)
Parent Subgroup:
Igbo; g (igbo)
Child Dialects:
Mbaise (ibo-mba)
Owerri; Isuama (ibo-owe)
Egbema (ibo-egb)
Oka; Awka (ibo-oka)
Eche (ibo-ech)
Umuahia (ibo-umu)
Oguta (ibo-ogu)
Aniocha (ibo-ani)
Bonny-Opobo (ibo-bon)
Nsa (ibo-nsa)
Nsuka (ibo-nsu)
Orlu (ibo-orl)
Afikpo (ibo-afi)
Onitsha (ibo-oni)
Unwana (ibo-unw)
Ohuhu (ibo-ohu)
Ngwa (ibo-ngw)
Map of Igbo
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