Countries
India
Philippines
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
India
Philippines
Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Philippines
Speaking Continents
Asia
Asia
Minority Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
-
Visayan Academy of Arts and Letters
Interesting Facts
- Sanskrit language has highest number of vocabularies than any other language.
- Sanskrit Language has proved to help in speech therapy, also it increases concentration and helps to learn maths and science better.
- 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
Old German Language
Hiligaynon Language
Derived From
Prakrit Language
Island of Cebu
Alphabets in
Alphabets
5221
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
165
0
32
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How Many Consonants
3616
9
60
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Scripts
Devanagari
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
20 weeks3 weeks
3
88
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Hello
नमस्कारः (namaskāraḥ)
Hoy
Thank You
धन्यवादाः (dhanyawādāh)
Salamat
How Are You?
कथमस्ति भवान् (kathamasti bhawān)
Kumusta man ka?
Good Night
शुभरात्री (shubharātrī)
Maayong Gabii
Good Evening
शुभः सायंकालः
Maayong Gabii
Good Afternoon
शुभ दुपार
Maayong Hapon
Good Morning
सुप्रभातम् (suprabhātam)
Maayong Buntag
Please
कृपया (kripayā)
Palihug
Sorry
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Ikasubo ko
Bye
पुनः मिलामः(punah milamah)
Babay
I Love You
त्वामनुरजामि (twāmanurajāmi)
Gihigugma ko ikaw
Excuse Me
कृपया क्षम्यताम् (kripayā kshamyatām)
Ekskyus mi
Dialect 1
Not present
Boholano
Where They Speak
-
Bohol
How Many People Speak
140,000.0021,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Not present
Southern Kana
Where They Speak
-
southern Leyte
How Many People Speak
140,000.0021,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Not present
North Kana
Where They Speak
-
northern part of Leyte
How Many People Speak
140,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
04
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
14.10 million20.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.01 %0.32 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
14.10 million21.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
-14.50 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam)
Visayan
Alternative Names
Saṃskṛtam, Sanskritam
Binisaya, Bisayan, Sebuano, Sugbuanon, Sugbuhanon, Visayan
French Name
sanskrit
cebuano
German Name
Sanskrit
Cebuano
Pronunciation
[səmskr̩t̪əm]
[sɛbuˈɑno]
Ethnicity
Sanskrit speakers
Cebuano people
Origin
2000 B.C.
16th century
Language Family
Indo-European Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indo-Iranian
-
Branch
Indic
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Vedic Sanskrit
No early forms
Standard Forms
Sanskrit
Standard Cebuano
Language Position
2362
1
120
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Signed Forms
-
Cebuano Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
sa
No data Available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
san
ceb
ISO 639 2/B
san
ceb
ISO 639 3
san
ceb
ISO 639 6
san
ceb
Glottocode
sans1269
cebu1242
Linguasphere
No data available
No data Available
Types of Language
Language Type
Ancient
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Object-Verb
Verb-Subject-Object
Language Morphological Typology
Synthetic
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