Countries
Philippines
  
Austria, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland
  
National Language
Philippines
  
Germany
  
Second Language
Filipinos
  
North Dakota, United States of America
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Australia
  
Europe
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
  
Czech Republic, Denmark, Former Soviet Union, France, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia
  
Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
  
Council for German Orthography
  
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".
  
- One of the large group of Indo-Germanic languages is German.
- The second most popular Germanic language spoken today behind English is German language.
  
Similar To
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
  
Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish and English Languages
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Albanian Languages
  
Alphabets in
Tagalog-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
German-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Baybayin
  
Latin
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Kamusta
  
hallo
  
Thank You
Salamat po
  
Danke
  
How Are You?
Kamusta ka na?
  
Wie geht es dir?
  
Good Night
Magandang gabi
  
gute Nacht
  
Good Evening
Magandang gabi po
  
guten Abend
  
Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon po
  
guten Tag
  
Good Morning
Magandang umaga po
  
guten Morgen
  
Please
pakiusap
  
bitte
  
Sorry
pinagsisisihan
  
Verzeihung
  
Bye
Paálam
  
Tschüs
  
I Love You
Iniibig kita
  
Ich liebe dich
  
Excuse Me
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
  
Entschuldigung
  
Dialect 1
Batangas Tagalog
  
Swiss German
  
Where They Speak
Batangas, Gabon
  
Switzerland
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
4,500,000.00
  
18
Dialect 2
Bisalog
  
Swabian German
  
Where They Speak
Philippines
  
Germany
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Filipino
  
Texas German
  
Where They Speak
Philippines
  
Texas
  
How Many People Speak?
73.00 million
  
24
229.00 million
  
8
Native Speakers
28.00 million
  
29
101.00 million
  
10
Second Language Speakers
45.00 million
  
13
128.00 million
  
5
Native Name
Tagalog
  
Deutsch
  
Alternative Names
Filipino, Pilipino
  
Deutsch, Tedesco
  
French Name
tagalog
  
allemand
  
German Name
Tagalog
  
Deutsch
  
Pronunciation
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
  
[ˈdɔʏtʃ]
  
Ethnicity
Tagalog people
  
Germans
  
Origin
1593
  
6th Century AD
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Germanic
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Western
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
  
No early forms
  
Standard Forms
Filipino
  
German Standard German, Swiss Standard German and Austrian Standard German
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Signed German
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
t1
  
de
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tgl
  
deu
  
ISO 639 2/B
tgl
  
ger
  
ISO 639 3
tg1
  
deu
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
deus
  
Glottocode
taga1269
  
high1287, uppe1397
  
Linguasphere
31-CKA
  
52-ACB–dl & -dm
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Living
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
  
Subject-Object-Verb, Subject-Verb-Object
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional, Synthetic