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1 Countries

1.1 Countries

Philippines

1.2 Total No. Of Countries

1
Rank: 14 (Overall)
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0 46

1.3 National Language

Philippines

1.4 Second Language

Filipinos

1.5 Speaking Continents

Asia, Australia

1.6 Minority Language

Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom

1.7 Regulated By

Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee

1.8 Interesting Facts

  • In 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
  • The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".

1.9 Similar To

Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages

1.10 Derived From

Not Available

2 Alphabets

2.1 Alphabets in

2.2 Alphabets

25
Rank: 7 (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

18
Rank: 8 (Overall)
About German Language
9 60

2.4 Scripts

Baybayin

2.5 Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal

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

Kamusta

3.2 Thank You

Salamat po

3.3 How Are You?

Kamusta ka na?

3.4 Good Night

Magandang gabi

3.5 Good Evening

Magandang gabi po

3.6 Good Afternoon

Magandang hapon po

3.7 Good Morning

Magandang umaga po

3.8 Please

pakiusap

3.9 Sorry

pinagsisisihan

3.10 Bye

Paálam

3.11 I Love You

Iniibig kita

3.12 Excuse Me

Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako

4 Dialects

4.1 Dialect 1

Batangas Tagalog

4.1.1 Where They Speak

Batangas, Gabon

4.1.2 How Many People Speak

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

4.2 Dialect 2

Bisalog

4.2.1 Where They Speak

Philippines

4.2.2 How Many People Speak

Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall)
About Dzongkha Language
700 80000000

4.3 Dialect 3

Filipino

4.3.1 Where They Speak

Philippines

4.3.2 How Many People Speak

90,000.00
Rank: 30 (Overall)
About Romanian Language
1400 96000000

4.4 Total No. Of Dialects

3
Rank: 3 (Overall)
About Sanskrit Language
0 188

5 How Many People Speak

5.1 How Many People Speak?

73.00 million
Rank: 24 (Overall)
About Abkhaz Language
0.13 1200

5.2 Speaking Population

0.42 %
Rank: 32 (Overall)
About Xhosa Language
0.11 89

5.3 Native Speakers

28.00 million
Rank: 29 (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

Tagalog

5.3.3 Alternative Names

Filipino, Pilipino

5.3.4 French Name

tagalog

5.3.5 German Name

Tagalog

5.4 Pronunciation

[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]

5.5 Ethnicity

Tagalog people

6 History

6.1 Origin

1593

6.2 Language Family

Austronesian Family

6.2.1 Subgroup

Indonesian

6.2.2 Branch

Not Available

6.3 Language Forms

6.3.1 Early Forms

Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog

6.3.2 Standard Forms

Filipino

6.3.3 Language Position

58
Rank: 43 (Overall)
About Chinese Language
1 120

6.3.4 Signed Forms

Not Available

6.4 Scope

Individual

7 Code

7.1 ISO 639 1

t1

7.2 ISO 639 2

7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T

tgl

7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B

tgl

7.3 ISO 639 3

tg1

7.4 ISO 639 6

Not Available

7.5 Glottocode

taga1269

7.6 Linguasphere

31-CKA

7.7 Types of Language

7.7.1 Language Type

Living

7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology

Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object

7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology

Not Available

Know Alphabets in Tagalog

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Tagalog Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Tagalog Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Tagalog. Tagalog phonology gives Tagalog vowels and Tagalog consonants. There are 5 vowels and 18 consonants in Tagalog language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Tagalog is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Tagalog language is given in detail in this section.

All Tagalog countries

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

  • Countries that use Tagalog 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 Tagalog as second language are: Filipinos.

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

Learn Tagalog 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 Tagalog 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 Tagalog language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Tagalog language.Learn Tagalog greetings that can be used in formal situations:

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

All Tagalog Language Codes

Get to know all Tagalog 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 Tagalog 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.