Africa · ISO 639-3 ibo · Glottocode nucl1417
Igbo
Igbo joins the collection as an Atlantic-Congo language with a Nigerian reference point and a likely Latin script.
- Language family
- Atlantic-Congo
- Likely script
- Latin (Latn)
- Source status
- not endangered
- Macroarea
- Africa
- Source country codes
- NG
- Reference point
- 4.627, 7.234
Open research question
How can varieties, standardisation and actual writing practices be distinguished through community-proximate sources?
This question is an assignment for later subject and community-proximate source review, not a claim about a uniform cultural worldview.
Scholarly boundary
The map point is a Glottolog reference point, not a language-area boundary. The script field is a likely Unicode CLDR assignment, not a complete history of orthography. Information on endangerment and countries follows the linked source data and does not replace current local assessment.