1 Countries
1.1 Countries
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
1.3 National Language
1.4 Second Language
Filipinos
Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zimbabwe
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
Pan South African Language Board
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".
- The meaning of word "Zulu" means "Sky"and Zulu was the name of the ancestor who founded the Zulu royal line in about 1670.
- Zulu language has many loanwords borrowed from Afrikaans and English Languages.
1.9 Similar To
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Xhosa Language
1.10 Derived From
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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
2.5 Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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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?
3.4 Good Night
Magandang gabi
okuhle ebusuku
3.5 Good Evening
Magandang gabi po
okuhle kusihlwa
3.6 Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon po
okuhle ntambama
3.7 Good Morning
Magandang umaga po
okuhle ekuseni
3.8 Please
3.9 Sorry
pinagsisisihan
Ngiyaxolisa
3.10 Bye
3.11 I Love You
Iniibig kita
Ngiyakuthanda wena
3.12 Excuse Me
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
Uxolo
4 Dialects
4.1 Dialect 1
4.1.1 Where They Speak
Batangas, Gabon
Gabon, South Africa
4.1.2 How Many People Speak
4.2 Dialect 2
Bisalog
central KwaZulu-Natal Zulu
4.2.1 Where They Speak
Philippines
Georgia, South Africa
4.2.2 How Many People Speak
4.3 Dialect 3
4.3.1 Where They Speak
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 million30.00 million
0.13
1200
5.2 Speaking Population
5.3 Native Speakers
28.00 million12.00 million
0.13
873
5.3.1 Second Language Speakers
45.00 million16.00 million
0.01
400
5.3.2 Native Name
5.3.3 Alternative Names
Filipino, Pilipino
Isizulu, Zunda
5.3.4 French Name
5.3.5 German Name
5.4 Pronunciation
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
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5.5 Ethnicity
Tagalog people
Zulu people
6 History
6.1 Origin
6.2 Language Family
Austronesian Family
Niger-Congo 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
urban Zulu
6.3.2 Standard Forms
6.3.3 Language Position
6.3.4 Signed Forms
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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
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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
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