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- Igbo (ibo)

Igbo is also known as Ibo, Ebo or Unege. It is spoken mainly in Nigeria. There are about 42 million speakers in Southern Nigeria, mainly in the southweast of the country, particularly in the states of Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo. There are also Igbo speakers in Australia (2,000), Canada (4,240), and the UK (7,950). There are over 15 Igbo dialects, some of which are not mutually intelligible. No one speaks "general Igbo" natively and it is not accepted by all Igbo groups. The largest variety of the core Igbo cluster is Ngwa.The standard written form of Igbo is based on the Owerri and Umuahia dialects.

English is the official language of Niberia, but Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Fula, and English Creole are widely spoken. Igbo is recognised as a minority language in Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea. It is used in literature, and on the radio and TV.

Igbo has been written with a number of spelling systems using the Latin alphabet since the 18th century. The Lepsius Standard Alphabet, devised by the German philologist Karl Richard Lepsius, was used from the 1850s. This was replaced in 1929 by the Practical Orthography of African Languages or African Orthography, which was created by the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures.

The Igbo people group is almost entirely Christian (98.8%).

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