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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Philippines

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
About Bhojpuri Language
0 46

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

28
Rank: 10 (Overall)
About Irish Language
18 247

2.3 Phonology

2.3.1 How Many Vowels

5
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Hebrew Language
0 32

2.3.2 How Many Consonants

23
Rank: 13 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Latin

2.5 Writing Direction

Not Available

2.6 Hard to Learn

2.6.1 Language Levels

3
Rank: 2 (Overall)
About Bengali Language
2 12

2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About Cebuano Language
3 88

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

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Macedonian Language
1.5 960000000

4.2 Dialect 2

Hiligaynon

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Philippines

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

8,200,000.00
Rank: 11 (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Waray

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Philippines

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

2,600,000.00
Rank: 13 (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

8
Rank: 8 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

90.00 million
Rank: 17 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

45.00 million
Rank: 23 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 873

5.3.1 Second Language Speakers

45.00 million
Rank: 13 (Overall)
About Finnish Language
0.01 400

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

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

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.