1 Countries
1.1 Countries
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
Philippines
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
China, Taiwan
Philippines
1.4 Second Language
Republic of Brazil
Filipinos
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Indonesia, Malaysia
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
1.7 Regulated By
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
- 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
Not Available
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
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
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Baybayin
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
Kamusta ka na?
3.4 Good Night
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
Magandang gabi
3.5 Good Evening
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
Magandang gabi po
3.6 Good Afternoon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
Magandang hapon po
3.7 Good Morning
早安 (Zǎo ān)
Magandang umaga po
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
pinagsisisihan
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
Iniibig kita
3.12 Excuse Me
劳驾 (Láojià)
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Mandarin
Batangas Tagalog
4.1.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
Batangas, Gabon
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
960,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
China, United States of America
Philippines
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
80,000,000.00NA
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
Philippines
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
60,000,000.0090,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
1,051.00 million73.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
873.00 million28.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
178.00 million45.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Not Available
Filipino, Pilipino
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Standard Chinese
Filipino
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
Not Available
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
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available