Countries
Philippines
  
China, Nepal
  
National Language
Philippines
  
Nepal, Tibet
  
Second Language
Filipinos
  
Not spoken in any of the countries
  
Speaking Continents
Asia, Australia
  
Asia
  
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
  
China, India, Nepal
  
Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
  
Committee for the Standardisation of the Tibetan Language
  
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".
  
- Tibetan dialects vary alot, so it's difficult for tibetans to understand each other if they are not from same area.
- Tibetan is tonal with six tones in all: short low, long low, high falling, low falling, short high, long high.
  
Similar To
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
  
Not Available
  
Derived From
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Alphabets in
Tagalog-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Tibetan-Alphabets.jpg#200
  
Phonology
  
  
Scripts
Baybayin
  
Tibetan alphabet, Tibetan Braille
  
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
  
Hard to Learn
  
  
Hello
Kamusta
  
བཀྲ་ཤིས་བདེ་ལེགས། (tashi delek)
  
Thank You
Salamat po
  
ཐུགས་རྗེ་ཆེ་། (tujay-chay)
  
How Are You?
Kamusta ka na?
  
ཁྱེད་རང་སྐུ་གཇུགས་བདེ་པོ་ཡིན་པས།
(kayrang kusu debo yimbay?)
  
Good Night
Magandang gabi
  
གཟིམ་ལཇག་གནང་དགོས་། (sim-jah nahng-go)
  
Good Evening
Magandang gabi po
  
དགོང་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon po
  
ཉིན་གུང་བདེ་ལེགས།
  
Good Morning
Magandang umaga po
  
སྔ་དྲོ་བདེ་ལེགས། (nga-to delek)
  
Please
pakiusap
  
thu-je zig / ku-chee.
  
Sorry
pinagsisisihan
  
ཀོང་དགས་། (gawn-da)
  
Bye
Paálam
  
ག་ལེར་ཕེབས་། (kha-leh phe)
  
I Love You
Iniibig kita
  
ང་ཁྱེད་རང་ལ་དགའ་པོ་ཡོད་ (nga kayrâng-la gawpo yö)
  
Excuse Me
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
  
དགོངས་དག བཟོད་དུ་གསོལ། ཐུགས་རྗེ་གཟིགས།
  
Dialect 1
Batangas Tagalog
  
Central Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Batangas, Gabon
  
China, India, Nepal
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,200,000.00
  
27
Dialect 2
Bisalog
  
Khams Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Philippines
  
Bhutan, China
  
How Many People Speak
Not Available
  
1,400,000.00
  
23
Dialect 3
Filipino
  
Amdo Tibetan
  
Where They Speak
Philippines
  
China
  
How Many People Speak
1,800,000.00
  
16
How Many People Speak?
73.00 million
  
24
1.20 million
  
99+
Speaking Population
Not Available
  
Native Speakers
28.00 million
  
29
1.20 million
  
99+
Second Language Speakers
45.00 million
  
13
Not Available
  
Native Name
Tagalog
  
བོད་སྐད་ (pö-gay)
  
Alternative Names
Filipino, Pilipino
  
Bhotia, Dbus, Dbusgtsang, Phoke, Tibetan, U, Wei, Weizang, Zang
  
French Name
tagalog
  
tibétain
  
German Name
Tagalog
  
Tibetisch
  
Pronunciation
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
  
Not Available
  
Ethnicity
Tagalog people
  
tibetan people
  
Origin
1593
  
c. 650
  
Language Family
Austronesian Family
  
Sino-Tibetan Family
  
Subgroup
Indonesian
  
Tibeto-Burman
  
Branch
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Language Forms
  
  
Early Forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
  
Old Tibetan, Classical Tibetan
  
Standard Forms
Filipino
  
Standard Tibetan
  
Language Position
Not Available
  
Signed Forms
Not Available
  
Tibetan Sign Language
  
Scope
Individual
  
Not Available
  
ISO 639 1
t1
  
bo
  
ISO 639 2
  
  
ISO 639 2/T
tgl
  
bod
  
ISO 639 2/B
tgl
  
tib
  
ISO 639 3
tg1
  
bod
  
ISO 639 6
Not Available
  
Not Available
  
Glottocode
taga1269
  
tibe1272
  
Linguasphere
31-CKA
  
No data Available
  
Types of Language
  
  
Language Type
Living
  
Not Available
  
Language Linguistic Typology
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
  
Not Available
  
Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
  
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