Countries
Hong Kong, Macau
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
China, Guangdong
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Filipinos
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia, Australia
Minority Language
Hawaii
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
Regulated By
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
Interesting Facts
- Cantonese have lot of slangs, many of them include words that do not make sense at all and some also have English in them.
- Even though Cantonese and Mandarin are dialects of Chinese, Cantonese has 8 tones instead of Mandarin's 4.
- 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
Chinese Language
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2825
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
85
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2018
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Baybayin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
103
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
88 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
您好
Kamusta
Thank You
谢谢
Salamat po
How Are You?
你好吗？
Kamusta ka na?
Good Night
晚安
Magandang gabi
Good Evening
晚上好
Magandang gabi po
Good Afternoon
下午好
Magandang hapon po
Good Morning
早上好
Magandang umaga po
Please
请
pakiusap
Sorry
遗憾
pinagsisisihan
Bye
再见
Paálam
I Love You
我爱你
Iniibig kita
Excuse Me
原谅我
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
Dialect 1
Guangzhou
Batangas Tagalog
Where They Speak
outside mainland China
Batangas, Gabon
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Xiguan
Bisalog
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Philippines
How Many People Speak
71,000,000.0028,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Hong Kong
Filipino
Where They Speak
Hong Kong
Philippines
How Many People Speak
70,000,000.0090,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
60.00 million73.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
16.00 %0.42 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
52.00 million28.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
71.00 million45.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Kwang Tung Wa
Tagalog
Alternative Names
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
Filipino, Pilipino
French Name
cantonais
tagalog
German Name
Kantonesisch
Tagalog
Pronunciation
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
Ethnicity
Han Chinese
Tagalog people
Origin
17th century
1593
Language Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
-
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
Standard Forms
Standard Cantonese
Filipino
Language Position
158
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Signed Cantonese
Signed Tagalog
Scope
-
Individual
ISO 639 1
No data available
t1
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
yue
tgl
ISO 639 2/B
yue
tgl
ISO 639 3
No data available
tg1
ISO 639 6
yue
tgl
Glottocode
cant1236
taga1269
Linguasphere
No data available
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
-
-