1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
1.5 Speaking Continents
1.6 Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
Not spoken in any of the countries
1.7 Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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".
- In Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
1.9 Similar To
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Maldivian Language
1.10 Derived From
Not Available
Sanskrit Language
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
Sinhala alphabet
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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
Salamat po
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
3.3 How Are You?
Kamusta ka na?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
3.4 Good Night
Magandang gabi
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
3.5 Good Evening
Magandang gabi po
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
3.6 Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon po
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
3.7 Good Morning
Magandang umaga po
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
3.8 Please
pakiusap
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
3.9 Sorry
pinagsisisihan
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Iniibig kita
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
3.12 Excuse Me
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Batangas, Gabon
Sri Lanka
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Philippines
Not Available
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
Philippines
Not Available
4.3.2 How Many People Speak
90,000.00NA
1400
96000000
4.4 Total No. Of Dialects
5 How Many People Speak
5.1 How Many People Speak?
73.00 million16.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
28.00 million16.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
45.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Filipino, Pilipino
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
Not Available
5.5 Ethnicity
Tagalog people
Sinhalese people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
6.2.1 Subgroup
6.2.2 Branch
6.3 Language Forms
6.3.1 Early Forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
Sinhalese Prakrit
6.3.2 Standard Forms
Filipino
Modern Sinhalese
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
Not Available
Not Available
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-Object-Verb
7.7.3 Language Morphological Typology