1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Filipinos
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Pacific
Asia, Australia
1.6 Minority Language
Palau
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
1.7 Regulated By
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
1.8 Interesting Facts
- In Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
- There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.
- 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
Korean Language
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
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
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)
Kamusta
3.2 Thank You
ありがとう (Arigatō)
Salamat po
3.3 How Are You?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)
Kamusta ka na?
3.4 Good Night
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)
Magandang gabi
3.5 Good Evening
こんばんは (Konbanwa)
Magandang gabi po
3.6 Good Afternoon
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)
Magandang hapon po
3.7 Good Morning
おはよう (Ohayō)
Magandang umaga po
3.8 Please
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)
pakiusap
3.9 Sorry
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)
pinagsisisihan
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)
Iniibig kita
3.12 Excuse Me
すみません (Sumimasen)
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
1,000,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
NA90,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
128.00 million73.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
128.00 million28.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
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
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
5.5 Ethnicity
Japanese (Yamato)
Tagalog people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Japonic Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Signed Japanese
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-Object-Verb
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Agglutinative, Synthetic
Not Available