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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Commission on the Filipino Language
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
1.8 Interesting Facts
- Ilocano was originally written with Baybayin syllabary, then gradually it was replaced by Latin alphabet.
- Northwest Luzon is the original Ilocano homeland.
- 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, Indonesian and Malaysian Languages
Not Available
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
Ilokano Braille, 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
Naimbag a rabii
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
Naimbag a sardam
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Naimbag a malem
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
Naimbag a bigat
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Ayayatenka
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
Maawan-dayawen
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
21,000.00960,000,000.00
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
41,000.0080,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Not present
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA60,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
9.10 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
9.10 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
NA178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Ilokano, Iloko
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
Ilokano-Sprache
Chinesisch
5.4 Pronunciation
Not Available
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
Modern Ilocano
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