1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Philippines
Hong Kong, Macau
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Philippines
China, Guangdong
1.4 Second Language
Filipinos
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
Hawaii
1.7 Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
1.8 Interesting Facts
- 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".
- 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.
1.9 Similar To
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Chinese Language
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
Baybayin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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?
3.4 Good Night
3.5 Good Evening
3.6 Good Afternoon
3.7 Good Morning
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
3.12 Excuse Me
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
原谅我
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Batangas Tagalog
Guangzhou
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Batangas, Gabon
outside mainland China
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
1.13 Dialect 3
1.13.1 Where They Speak
1.13.2 How Many People Speak
90,000.00NA
1400
96000000
1.14 Total No. Of Dialects
2 How Many People Speak
2.1 How Many People Speak?
73.00 million60.00 million
0.13
1200
2.2 Speaking Population
2.3 Native Speakers
28.00 million52.00 million
0.13
873
2.3.1 Second Language Speakers
2.3.2 Native Name
2.3.3 Alternative Names
Filipino, Pilipino
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
2.3.4 French Name
2.3.5 German Name
2.4 Pronunciation
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
Not Available
2.5 Ethnicity
Tagalog people
Not Available
3 History
3.1 Origin
3.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
3.2.1 Subgroup
3.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
3.3 Language Forms
3.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
No early forms
3.3.2 Standard Forms
Filipino
Standard Cantonese
3.3.3 Language Position
3.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
3.4 Scope
4 Code
4.1 ISO 639 1
4.2 ISO 639 2
4.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
4.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
4.3 ISO 639 3
4.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
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4.5 Glottocode
4.6 Linguasphere
4.7 Types of Language
4.7.1 Language Type
4.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
Not Available
4.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
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