Countries
Fiji, India
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
21
0
46
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National Language
India
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Philippines
Speaking Continents
Asia, Oceania
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Central Hindi Directorate
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
Interesting Facts
- In Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
- About one-fifth of the population of the philippines speak cebuano and are second largest ethnolinguistic group in the country.
- Cebuano contains many words of Spanish origin.
Similar To
Urdu
Hiligaynon Language
Derived From
Sanskrit Language
Island of Cebu
Alphabets in
Alphabets
4421
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
115
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3316
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
42
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks3 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Hoy
Thank You
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
Salamat
How Are You?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Kumusta man ka?
Good Night
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Maayong Gabii
Good Evening
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Maayong Gabii
Good Afternoon
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Maayong Hapon
Good Morning
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Maayong Buntag
Please
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Palihug
Sorry
खेद (Khēda)
Ikasubo ko
Bye
अलविदा (Alavidā)
Babay
I Love You
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Gihigugma ko ikaw
Excuse Me
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Ekskyus mi
Dialect 1
Khariboli
Boholano
Where They Speak
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
Bohol
How Many People Speak
240,000,000.0021,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Marwari
Southern Kana
Where They Speak
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
southern Leyte
How Many People Speak
22,000,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Bundeli
North Kana
Where They Speak
Bundelkhand
northern part of Leyte
How Many People Speak
20,000,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
214
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
380.00 million20.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
4.70 %0.32 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
260.00 million21.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
120.00 million14.50 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
हिन्दी
Visayan
Alternative Names
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
French Name
hindi
cebuano
German Name
Hindi
Cebuano
Pronunciation
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
[sɛbuˈɑno]
Ethnicity
Hindustani people
Cebuano people
Origin
7th Century
16th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
No early forms
No early forms
Standard Forms
Standard Hindi
Standard Cebuano
Language Position
562
1
120
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Signed Forms
Indian Signing System
Cebuano Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
hi
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
hin
ceb
ISO 639 2/B
hin
ceb
ISO 639 3
hin
ceb
ISO 639 6
hins
ceb
Glottocode
hind1269
cebu1242
Linguasphere
59-AAF-qf
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Fusional, Synthetic
-