Countries
Philippines
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Philippines
Nepal
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Commission on the Filipino Language
Language Academy of Nepal
Interesting Facts
- Ilocano was originally written with Baybayin syllabary, then gradually it was replaced by Latin alphabet.
- Northwest Luzon is the original Ilocano homeland.
- 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, Indonesian and Malaysian Languages
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
3248
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
612
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
2036
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Ilokano Braille, Latin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
-
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
46
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Kablaaw
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Agyamanak
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Kumusta?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Naimbag a rabii
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Naimbag a sardam
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Naimbag a malem
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Naimbag a bigat
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
mangngegda
कृपया
Sorry
Agpakawanak
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Pakada
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Ayayatenka
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Maawan-dayawen
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Balangao
Doteli
Where They Speak
Philippines
Nepal
How Many People Speak
21,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Bontoc
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Philippines
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
41,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Not present
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Not present
Nepal
How Many People Speak
8,000,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
212
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
9.10 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.14 %0.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
9.10 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
11.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
ilokano
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Ilokano, Iloko
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
ilocano
népalais
German Name
Ilokano-Sprache
Nepali
Pronunciation
[iːloˈkɑno]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Ilocano people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
18th 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
Modern Ilocano
Nepali
Language Position
9459
1
120
👆🏻
Signed Forms
Ilocano Sign Language
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
No data available
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
ilo
nep
ISO 639 2/B
ilo
nep
ISO 639 3
ilo
npi
ISO 639 6
ilo
nep
Glottocode
ilok1237
nepa1254
Linguasphere
31-CBA-a
12
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
-
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative