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Countries

Countries
Philippines

Total No. Of Countries
1 14

National Language
Philippines

Second Language
Filipinos

Speaking Continents
Asia, Australia

Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom

Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee

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".

Similar To
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages

Derived From
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in
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Alphabets
25 7

Phonology

How Many Vowels
5 2

How Many Consonants
18 8

Scripts
Baybayin

Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal

Hard to Learn

Language Levels
3 2

Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks 17

Greetings

Hello
Kamusta

Thank You
Salamat po

How Are You?
Kamusta ka na?

Good Night
Magandang gabi

Good Evening
Magandang gabi po

Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon po

Good Morning
Magandang umaga po

Please
pakiusap

Sorry
pinagsisisihan

Bye
Paálam

I Love You
Iniibig kita

Excuse Me
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako

Dialects

Dialect 1
Batangas Tagalog

Where They Speak
Batangas, Gabon

How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00 24

Dialect 2
Bisalog

Where They Speak
Philippines

How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00 22

Dialect 3
Filipino

Where They Speak
Philippines

How Many People Speak
90,000.00 71

Total No. Of Dialects
3 3

How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?
73.00 million 24

Speaking Population
0.42 % 34

Native Speakers
28.00 million 29

Second Language Speakers
45.00 million 19

Native Name
Tagalog

Alternative Names
Filipino, Pilipino

French Name
tagalog

German Name
Tagalog

Pronunciation
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]

Ethnicity
Tagalog people

History

Origin
1593

Language Family
Austronesian Family

Subgroup
Indonesian

Branch
-

Language Forms

Early Forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog

Standard Forms
Filipino

Language Position
58 53

Signed Forms
Signed Tagalog

Scope
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1
t1

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T
tgl

ISO 639 2/B
tgl

ISO 639 3
tg1

ISO 639 6
tgl

Glottocode
taga1269

Linguasphere
31-CKA

Types of Language

Language Type
Living

Language Linguistic Typology
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object

Language Morphological Typology
-

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Know Alphabets in Tagalog

When you start learning to write in any language the Alphabets form a skeleton of any language. Let's talk About Tagalog Language, where you will learn the number of letter in Tagalog Alphabets. Every language has its own set of alphabets or characters so it is necessary to know alphabets in Tagalog. Tagalog phonology gives Tagalog vowels and Tagalog consonants. There are 5 vowels and 18 consonants in Tagalog language. Based upon the number of alphabet, vowels and consonants in the language we can check if Tagalog is one of the Most Difficult Languages. All about Tagalog language is given in detail in this section.

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All Tagalog countries

Want to explore all Tagalog countries? About Tagalog language serves you with all Tagalog Speaking Countries. Countries that use Tagalog as official language are called as Tagalog countries.

  • Countries that use Tagalog as their National Language are: Philippines.

Second language indicates to any language which the person learns in addition to first or native language.

  • Countries that use Tagalog as second language are: Filipinos.

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Learn Tagalog greetings

Languages are used by every human being to communicate. And communication begins with the greetings. First step to form any interaction is to learn Tagalog Greetings. Whenever you are travelling to new country where in you don’t know the local language of that country then you should at least be familiar with some greetings to start any formal or informal conversion. When we talk about Tagalog language, we are always interested in learning useful phrases in Tagalog language.Learn Tagalog greetings that can be used in formal situations:

  • Hello: Kamusta
  • Thank you: Salamat po
  • Good Morning: Magandang umaga po
  • Good Evening: Magandang gabi po
  • Good Afternoon: Magandang hapon po

All Tagalog Language Codes

Get to know all Tagalog language codes here. There are several languages spoken all over the world where in most of the languages have alternate names which come from diverse sources. All Tagalog Language Codes are assigned with unique code. There is usually two or three letters code for each language. In most of the applications, these language codes are used where it is tedious to use language names.

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