1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Philippines
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Philippines
1.4 Second Language
Filipinos
1.5 Speaking Continents
Asia, Australia
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
1.7 Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
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".
1.9 Similar To
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
1.10 Derived From
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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
2.6 Hard to Learn
2.6.1 Language Levels
2.6.2 Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks
Rank: 11 (Overall) ▶
3
88
3 Greetings
3.1 Hello
Kamusta
3.2 Thank You
Salamat po
3.3 How Are You?
Kamusta ka na?
3.4 Good Night
Magandang gabi
3.5 Good Evening
Magandang gabi po
3.6 Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon po
3.7 Good Morning
Magandang umaga po
3.8 Please
pakiusap
3.9 Sorry
pinagsisisihan
3.10 Bye
Paálam
3.11 I Love You
Iniibig kita
3.12 Excuse Me
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Batangas Tagalog
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Batangas, Gabon
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
Bisalog
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Philippines
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
Not Available
Rank: N/A (Overall) ▶
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
Filipino
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Philippines
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
90,000.00
Rank: 30 (Overall) ▶
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
73.00 million
Rank: 24 (Overall) ▶
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
0.42 %
Rank: 32 (Overall) ▶
0.11
89
5.3 Native Speakers
28.00 million
Rank: 29 (Overall) ▶
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
45.00 million
Rank: 13 (Overall) ▶
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
Tagalog
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Filipino, Pilipino
5.3.4 French Name
tagalog
5.3.5 German Name
Tagalog
5.4 Pronunciation
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
5.5 Ethnicity
Tagalog people
6 History
6.1 Origin
1593
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
Indonesian
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Filipino
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
6.4 Scope
Individual
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
t1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
tgl
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
tgl
7.3 ISO 639 3
tg1
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
taga1269
7.6 Linguasphere
31-CKA
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
Living
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available