Igala yare ne na yarbawa. Igala Najeriya ke magana da shi. A shekarar 1989 kimanin mutane 800,000 suka yi magana da Igala, musamman a cikin jihar Kogi. Yarukan sun haɗa da Idah, Imane, Ankpa, Dekina, Ogugu, Ibaji da Ife. Igala yana da alaƙa da Yarbanci wanda yake da kakanninsa na da, ya kasance ba a san lokacin da yaren biyu ya rabu ba, fahimtar juna a wannan zamani ba komai bane illa kawai, duk da cewa tsarin sauti / sautin na zama ɗaya, daidai da dangantakar da ke tsakanin ƴa mace daban-daban yare na dangin yare ko na yare. Mutanen Idoma da Bassa suna amfani da Igala don makarantar firamare. Harshen Igala, gami da al'adun Igala, sun yi tasiri a kan wasu harsuna da al'adu a kusa da mahaɗar kogunan Neja da Benuwai. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Harshen Igbo". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.