Editing Igbo language (section)

{{Short description|Niger–Congo language of the Igbo people, mainly spoken in Nigeria}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}}
{{Infobox language
| name             = Igbo
| nativename       = {{lang|ig|Ásụ̀sụ́ Ìgbò}}
| pronunciation    = {{IPA|ig|ásʊ̀sʊ̀ ìɡ͡bò||Ig Igbo.ogg}}
| states           = [[Nigeria]]
| region           = [[Igboland]]: [[Abia State|Abia]], [[Anambra]], [[Ebonyi]],[[Rivers State]], [[Enugu (city)|Enugu]], [[Imo State|Imo]], [[Delta State|Delta]], <ref name=e27/>
| ethnicity        = [[Igbo people|Igbo]]
| speakers         = {{sigfig|30.904720|2}} million
| date             = 2020
| ref              = e27
| familycolor      = Niger-Congo
| fam2             = [[Atlantic–Congo languages|Atlantic–Congo]]
| fam3             = [[Volta–Congo languages|Volta–Congo]]
| fam4             = [[Volta–Niger languages|Volta–Niger]]
| fam5             = [[Igboid languages|Igboid]]
| fam6             = [[Igboid languages|Nuclear Igboid]]
| stand1           = Standard Igbo<ref>{{cite book|title=Aspects of the morphology-syntax interface in four Nigerian languages |first=Gerald |last=Heusing |page=3 |publisher=LIT Verlag |location=Münster |year=1999 |isbn=3-8258-3917-6 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GqxTrl3x_vgC&pg=PA3}}</ref>
| script           = [[Latin script|Latin]] ([[Pan-Nigerian alphabet|Ọnwụ alphabet]])<br/>[[Nwagu Aneke script]]<br/>Neo-[[Nsibidi]]<br/>Ndebe script<br/>[[Igbo Braille]]<br/>Akagụ Script
| nation           = {{ubl|{{NGA}}  ([[National language|national status]])}}
| minority         = {{flag|Cameroon}}<ref name="unhcr.org">{{cite web |title=World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - : Overview |publisher=[[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees|UNHCR]] |date=20 May 2008 |url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,MRGI,,GNQ,,4954ce2a2,0.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130113125024/http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,MRGI,,GNQ,,4954ce2a2,0.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 January 2013 |access-date=2012-12-18 }}</ref>

<br/>{{flag| Equatorial Guinea}}<ref name="unhcr.org">{{cite web |title=World Directory of Minorities and Indigenous Peoples - : Overview |publisher=[[United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees|UNHCR]] |date=20 May 2008 |url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,MRGI,,GNQ,,4954ce2a2,0.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130113125024/http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,MRGI,,GNQ,,4954ce2a2,0.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=13 January 2013 |access-date=2012-12-18 }}</ref>
| agency           = [[Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture]]
| iso1             = ig
| iso2             = ibo
| iso3             = ibo
| lingua           = 98-GAA-a
| map              = File:Igboland Map.png
| mapcaption       = Complete Map of Igboland based on historical sources.
| notice           = IPA
| glotto           = nucl1417
| glottorefname    = Igbo
}}
{{Infobox ethnonym|people=[[Igbo people|Ṇ́dị́ Ìgbò]]|language='''Ásụ̀sụ́ Ìgbò'''|country=[[Igboland|Àlà Ị̀gbò]]}}

'''Igbo''' ({{IPAc-en|lang|ˈ|iː|b|oʊ}} {{respell|EE|boh}},<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.lexico.com/definition/Igbo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200322182626/https://www.lexico.com/definition/igbo |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-03-22 |title=Igbo |dictionary=[[Lexico]] UK English Dictionary |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]}}</ref> {{IPAc-en|USalso|ˈ|ɪ|ɡ|b|oʊ}} {{respell|I|gboh}};<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/igbo |title=Igbo |dictionary=[[Collins English Dictionary]] |publisher=[[HarperCollins]] |access-date=25 July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Merriam-Webster|Ibo|access-date=25 July 2019}}</ref> Standard Igbo: ''Ásụ̀sụ́ Ìgbò'' {{IPA|ig|ásʊ̀sʊ̀ ìɡ͡bò||Ig Igbo.ogg}}) is the principal native language cluster of the [[Igbo people]], an ethnicity in the Southeastern part of [[Nigeria]].

Igbo languages are spoken by a total of 31 million people.<ref name=e27/> 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, Imo|Orlu]] ([[Isu people|Isu]] dialects), Anambra ([[Awka]] dialects) and [[Umuahia]] ([[Ohuhu]] dialects), omitting the [[nasal vowel|nasalization]] and [[aspiration (phonetics)|aspiration]] of those varieties.