Countries
Philippines
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Philippines
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Philippines
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Hawaii
Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- "Filipino" was officially declared as national language by the constitution in 1987.
- "Filipino" is the official name of Tagalog, or synonym of it.
- 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.
Similar To
Tagalog Language
Chinese Language
Derived From
Spanish Language
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2828
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2320
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Kumusta
您好
Thank You
Salamat
谢谢
How Are You?
Kumusta
你好吗？
Good Night
magandang gabi
晚安
Good Evening
Magandang gabi
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon
下午好
Good Morning
Magandang umaga
早上好
Please
Mangyaring
请
Sorry
pinagsisisihan
遗憾
Bye
Paalam
再见
I Love You
Mahal kita
我爱你
Excuse Me
patawarin ninyo ako
原谅我
Dialect 1
Bikol
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Philippines
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
100,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Hiligaynon
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Philippines
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
8,200,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Waray
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Philippines
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
2,600,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
83
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
90.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.74 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
45.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
45.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
filipino
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Pilipino
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
filipino; pilipino
cantonais
German Name
Pilipino
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[ˌfɪl.ɪˈpiː.no]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Filipino people
Han Chinese
Origin
16th Century
17th century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
-
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Filipino
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
341
1
120
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Signed Forms
Filipino Sign Language
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
No Data Available
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fil
yue
ISO 639 2/B
fil
yue
ISO 639 3
fil
No data available
ISO 639 6
fil
yue
Glottocode
fili1244
cant1236
Linguasphere
No Data Available
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
-
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-