1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Philippines
Barbados, Belize, Botswana, Cameroon, Canada, Dominica, Fiji, Ghana, India, Ireland, Jamaica, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, Micronesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, Philippines, Rwanda, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Samoa, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somaliland, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, United Kingdom, Zambia, Zimbabwe
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.11 National Language
Philippines
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Cayman Islands, Gibraltar, Grenada, Guam, Guyana, Jersey, Montserrat, Nauru, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, United Kingdom, United States of America
1.12 Second Language
Philippines
India, Nigeria, Pakistan, Singapore
1.13 Speaking Continents
Asia
Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
1.14 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
South Africa
1.15 Regulated By
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
Not Available
1.16 Interesting Facts
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
- Most of the English words begin with the letter S than any other letter.
- English is third most commonly spoken language in the world.
1.17 Similar To
Hiligaynon Language
Not Available
1.18 Derived From
2 Alphabets
2.1 Alphabets in
2.2 Alphabets
2.3 Phonology
2.3.1 How Many Vowels
2.3.2 How Many Consonants
2.4 Scripts
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
3.2 Thank You
3.3 How Are You?
Kumusta man ka?
How are you?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
Maayong Gabii
Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
Maayong Hapon
Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
Maayong Buntag
Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Gihigugma ko ikaw
I love you
3.12 Excuse Me
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Boholano
American English
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Bohol
United States of America
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA225,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Southern Kana
Hiberno-English
4.2.1 Where They Speak
southern Leyte
Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA4,500,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
northern part of Leyte
United Kingdom
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA2,500,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
NA1,200.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
21.00 million400.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
14.50 million400.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
5.5 Ethnicity
Cebuano people
Not Available
6 History
6.1 Origin
16th century
5th Century AD
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English and English
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Cebuano
Standard English
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Signed English
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Fusional, Isolating, Synthetic