Countries
Philippines
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Philippines
Nepal
Second Language
Philippines
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
Language Academy of Nepal
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.
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Tagalog Language
Hindi
Derived From
Spanish Language
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2848
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2336
9
60
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Scripts
Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kumusta
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Salamat
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Kumusta
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
magandang gabi
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Magandang gabi
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Magandang umaga
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
Mangyaring
कृपया
Sorry
pinagsisisihan
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Paalam
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Mahal kita
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
patawarin ninyo ako
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Bikol
Doteli
Where They Speak
Philippines
Nepal
How Many People Speak
100,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Hiligaynon
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Philippines
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
8,200,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Waray
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Philippines
Nepal
How Many People Speak
2,600,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
812
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
90.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
1.74 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
45.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
45.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
filipino
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Pilipino
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
filipino; pilipino
népalais
German Name
Pilipino
Nepali
Pronunciation
[ˌfɪl.ɪˈpiː.no]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Filipino people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
16th Century
19 BC
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
-
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Filipino
Nepali
Language Position
3459
1
120
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Signed Forms
Filipino Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No Data Available
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
fil
nep
ISO 639 2/B
fil
nep
ISO 639 3
fil
npi
ISO 639 6
fil
nep
Glottocode
fili1244
nepa1254
Linguasphere
No Data Available
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative