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Igbo

Also known as Igbo language

Niger–Congo language of the Igbo people, mainly spoken in Nigeria

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Igbo is a language spoken primarily by the Igbo people in Nigeria and belongs to the larger Niger–Congo language family. It matters as an important part of the cultural identity and heritage of millions of Igbo speakers in West Africa.

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Wikimedia language code: ig
native label: Igbo
number of speakers, writers, or signers: 27000000
exact match: publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/IBO
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P11012: House of Finwë
short name: игбо

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Igbo ( English: /ˈiːboʊ/ EE-boh, US also /ˈɪɡboʊ/ IG-boh; Standard Igbo: Ásụ̀sụ́ Ìgbò [ásʊ̀sʊ̀ ìɡ͡bò] ) is the principal native language of the Igbo people, an ethnicity in the Southeastern part of Nigeria.

Igbo languages are spoken by a total of 31 million people. The number of Igboid languages depends on how one classifies a language versus a dialect, so there could be around 35 different Igbo languages. The core Igbo cluster, or Igbo proper, is generally thought to be one language but there is limited mutual intelligibility between the different groupings (north, west, south and east). A standard literary language termed 'Igbo izugbe' (meaning "general igbo") was generically developed and later adopted around 1972, with its core foundation based on the Orlu (Isu dialects), Anambra (Awka dialects) and Umuahia (Ohuhu dialects), omitting the nasalization and aspiration of those varieties.