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About Filipino Language

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1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Philippines
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
About Spanish L..
1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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1.3 National Language
Philippines
1.4 Second Language
Philippines
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
1.8 Interesting Facts
  • "Filipino" was officially declared as national language by the constitution in 1987.
  • "Filipino" is the official name of Tagalog, or synonym of it.
1.9 Similar To
Tagalog Language
1.10 Derived From
Spanish Language
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
About Tamil Lan..
28
Rank: 10 (Overall)
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2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
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5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2.3.2 How Many Consonants
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23
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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2.4 Scripts
Latin
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
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3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
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2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
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44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Kumusta
3.2 Thank You
Salamat
3.3 How Are You?
Kumusta
3.4 Good Night
magandang gabi
3.5 Good Evening
Magandang gabi
3.6 Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon
3.7 Good Morning
Magandang umaga
3.8 Please
Mangyaring
3.9 Sorry
pinagsisisihan
3.10 Bye
Paalam
3.11 I Love You
Mahal kita
3.12 Excuse Me
patawarin ninyo ako
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Bikol
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Philippines
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
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Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
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4.2 Dialect 2
Hiligaynon
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Philippines
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
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8,200,000.00
Rank: 11 (Overall)
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4.3 Dialect 3
Waray
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Philippines
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
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2,600,000.00
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
About English L..
8
Rank: 8 (Overall)
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5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
About English L..
90.00 million
Rank: 17 (Overall)
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5.2 Speaking Population
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Rank: N/A (Overall)
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5.3 Native Speakers
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45.00 million
Rank: 23 (Overall)
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5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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45.00 million
Rank: 13 (Overall)
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5.3.2 Native Name
filipino
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Pilipino
5.3.4 French Name
filipino; pilipino
5.3.5 German Name
Pilipino
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˌfɪl.ɪˈpiː.no]
5.5 Ethnicity
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
16th Century
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Filipino
6.3.3 Language Position
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6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
No Data Available
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
fil
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
fil
7.3 ISO 639 3
fil
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
fili1244
7.6 Linguasphere
No Data Available
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available

Know Alphabets in Filipino

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Filipino Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Filipino Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Filipino. Filipino phonology gives Filipino vowels and Filipino consonants. There are 5 vowels and 23 consonants in Filipino language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Filipino is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Filipino language is given in detail in this section.

All Filipino countries

Want to explore all Filipino countries? About Filipino language serves you with all Filipino Speaking Countries. Countries that use Filipino as official language are called as Filipino countries.

  • Countries that use Filipino as their National Language are: Philippines.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Filipino as second language are: Philippines.

You can also go through all European Languages and explore more about their speaking population, alphabets, greetings, dialects and many more.

Learn Filipino greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Filipino Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Filipino language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Filipino language.Learn Filipino greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Kumusta
  • Thank you: Salamat
  • Good Morning: Magandang umaga
  • Good Evening: Magandang gabi
  • Good Afternoon: Magandang hapon

All Filipino Language Codes

Get to know all Filipino language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Filipino Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.