1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Philippines
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
3.2 National Language
Philippines
China, Guangdong
3.3 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
3.4 Speaking Continents
3.5 Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
3.6 Regulated By
Commission on the Filipino Language
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
3.7 Interesting Facts
- Ilocano was originally written with Baybayin syllabary, then gradually it was replaced by Latin alphabet.
- Northwest Luzon is the original Ilocano homeland.
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
3.8 Similar To
Tagalog, Indonesian and Malaysian Languages
Chinese Language
3.9 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
4 Alphabets
4.1 Alphabets in
4.2 Alphabets
4.4 Phonology
4.4.1 How Many Vowels
4.5.3 How Many Consonants
4.7 Scripts
Ilokano Braille, Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
4.8 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
4.9 Hard to Learn
4.9.1 Language Levels
5.1.1 Time Taken to Learn
6 Greetings
6.1 Hello
6.2 Thank You
6.3 How Are You?
6.4 Good Night
6.5 Good Evening
6.6 Good Afternoon
6.7 Good Morning
6.8 Please
6.9 Sorry
6.10 Bye
6.11 I Love You
6.12 Excuse Me
7 Dialects
7.1 Dialect 1
7.1.1 Where They Speak
Philippines
outside mainland China
7.1.2 How Many People Speak
21,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
7.3 Dialect 2
7.3.1 Where They Speak
7.3.2 How Many People Speak
7.4 Dialect 3
7.4.1 Where They Speak
7.4.2 How Many People Speak
8.4 Total No. Of Dialects
9 How Many People Speak
9.1 How Many People Speak?
9.10 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
10.8 Speaking Population
10.9 Native Speakers
9.10 million52.00 million
0.13
873
10.9.1 Second Language Speakers
10.9.2 Native Name
10.9.3 Alternative Names
Ilokano, Iloko
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
10.9.4 French Name
10.9.5 German Name
Ilokano-Sprache
Not Available
10.10 Pronunciation
Not Available
Not Available
10.11 Ethnicity
Ilocano people
Not Available
11 History
11.1 Origin
18th Century
17th century
11.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
11.2.1 Subgroup
Not Available
Not Available
11.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
11.3 Language Forms
11.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
11.3.2 Standard Forms
Modern Ilocano
Standard Cantonese
11.3.3 Language Position
11.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
11.4 Scope
12 Code
12.1 ISO 639 1
No data available
No data available
12.2 ISO 639 2
12.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
12.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
12.3 ISO 639 3
12.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
12.5 Glottocode
12.6 Linguasphere
31-CBA-a
No data available
12.7 Types of Language
12.7.1 Language Type
12.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Not Available
Not Available
12.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Not Available