1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Philippines
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Philippines
China, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
Philippines
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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.
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Tagalog Language
Not Available
1.10 Derived From
Spanish Language
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
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
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
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
magandang gabi
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
Magandang gabi
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
Magandang umaga
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
pinagsisisihan
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Mahal kita
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
patawarin ninyo ako
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Philippines
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Philippines
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
8,200,000.0080,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Philippines
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
2,600,000.0060,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
90.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
45.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
45.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
5.3.4 French Name
filipino; pilipino
chinois
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[ˌfɪl.ɪˈpiː.no]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan 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
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Filipino
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
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
Not Available
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating