1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Philippines
China, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
Philippines
China, Taiwan
1.4 Second Language
Filipinos
Republic of Brazil
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
Indonesia, Malaysia
1.7 Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
Chinese Language Standardization Council, National Commission on Language and Script Work, Promote Mandarin Council
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".
- Chinese language is tonal, since meaning of a word changes according to its tone.
- In Chinese language, there is no grammatical distinction between singular or plural, no declination of verbs according to tense, mood and aspect.
1.9 Similar To
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Not Available
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?
Kamusta ka na?
你好吗？ (Nǐ hǎo ma?)
3.4 Good Night
Magandang gabi
晚安 (Wǎn'ān)
3.5 Good Evening
Magandang gabi po
晚上好 (Wǎnshàng hǎo)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon po
下午好 (Xiàwǔ hǎo)
3.7 Good Morning
Magandang umaga po
早安 (Zǎo ān)
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
pinagsisisihan
遗憾 (Yíhàn)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Iniibig kita
我爱你 (Wǒ ài nǐ)
3.12 Excuse Me
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
劳驾 (Láojià)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
Batangas Tagalog
Mandarin
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Batangas, Gabon
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
NA960,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Philippines
China, United States of America
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
NA80,000,000.00
700
80000000
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Philippines
China, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
90,000.0060,000,000.00
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
73.00 million1,051.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
28.00 million873.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
45.00 million178.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Filipino, Pilipino
Not Available
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
Not Available
Not Available
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
No early forms
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Filipino
Standard Chinese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Wenfa Shouyu 文法手語 ("Grammatical Sign Language", Signed Mandarin (Taiwan))
6.4 Scope
7 Code
7.1 ISO 639 1
7.2 ISO 639 2
7.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
7.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
7.3 ISO 639 3
7.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
7.5 Glottocode
7.6 Linguasphere
7.7 Types of Language
7.7.1 Language Type
7.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Verb-Object
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Not Available
Analytic, Isolating