Countries
Philippines
  
Sri Lanka
  
National Language
Philippines
  
Sri Lanka
  
Second Language
Filipinos
  
Sri Lanka
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Australia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
  
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
  
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".
  
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
  
Similar To
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
  
Maldivian Language
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Sanskrit Language
  
Alphabets in
Tagalog-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Sinhalese-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Baybayin
  
Sinhala alphabet
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Kamusta
  
හලෝ (halō)
  
Thank You
Salamat po
  
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
  
How Are You?
Kamusta ka na?
  
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
  
Good Night
Magandang gabi
  
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
  
Good Evening
Magandang gabi po
  
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
  
Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon po
  
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
  
Good Morning
Magandang umaga po
  
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
  
Please
pakiusap
  
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
  
Sorry
pinagsisisihan
  
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
  
Bye
Paálam
  
බායි (bāyi)
  
I Love You
Iniibig kita
  
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
  
Excuse Me
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
  
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
  
Dialect 1
Batangas Tagalog
  
Vedda
  
Where They Speak
Batangas, Gabon
  
Sri Lanka
  
Dialect 2
Bisalog
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Philippines
  
Not Available
  
Dialect 3
Filipino
  
Not Available
  
Where They Speak
Philippines
  
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
How Many People Speak?
73.00 million
  
24
16.00 million
  
99+
Native Speakers
28.00 million
  
29
16.00 million
  
39
Second Language Speakers
45.00 million
  
13
2.00 million
  
34
Native Name
Tagalog
  
සිංහල (sĩhala)
  
Alternative Names
Filipino, Pilipino
  
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
  
French Name
tagalog
  
singhalais
  
German Name
Tagalog
  
Singhalesisch
  
Pronunciation
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Tagalog people
  
Sinhalese people
  
Origin
1593
  
3
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Indo-European Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Indo-Iranian
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Indic
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
  
Sinhalese Prakrit
  
Standard Forms
Filipino
  
Modern Sinhalese
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Scope
Individual
  
Individual
  
ISO 639 1
t1
  
si
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tgl
  
sin
  
ISO 639 2/B
tgl
  
sin
  
ISO 639 3
tg1
  
sin
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
taga1269
  
sinh1246
  
Linguasphere
31-CKA
  
No data available
  
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
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
Fusional
  
Tagalog and Sinhalese Speaking population
Tagalog and Sinhalese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tagalog and Sinhalese languages can be compared. The total count of Tagalog and Sinhalese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tagalog language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Sinhalese language is 0.25 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Tagalog and Sinhalese on Tagalog vs Sinhalese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.
Tagalog and Sinhalese Language Codes
Tagalog and Sinhalese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tagalog and Sinhalese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.