Countries
Philippines
Hong Kong, Macau
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Philippines
China, Guangdong
Second Language
Filipinos
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Australia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
Hawaii
Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
Civil Service Bureau, Government of Hong Kong, Official Language Division
Interesting Facts
- In 1593, "Doctrina Christiana" was first book written in two versions of Tagalog.
- The name "Tagalog" means "native to" and "river". "Tagalog"is derived from taga ilog, which means "inhabitants of the river".
- 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
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Chinese Language
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2528
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1820
9
60
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Scripts
Baybayin
Chinese Characters and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
310
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks88 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kamusta
您好
Thank You
Salamat po
谢谢
How Are You?
Kamusta ka na?
你好吗？
Good Night
Magandang gabi
晚安
Good Evening
Magandang gabi po
晚上好
Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon po
下午好
Good Morning
Magandang umaga po
早上好
Please
pakiusap
请
Sorry
pinagsisisihan
遗憾
Bye
Paálam
再见
I Love You
Iniibig kita
我爱你
Excuse Me
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
原谅我
Dialect 1
Batangas Tagalog
Guangzhou
Where They Speak
Batangas, Gabon
outside mainland China
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0071,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Bisalog
Xiguan
Where They Speak
Philippines
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0071,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Filipino
Hong Kong
Where They Speak
Philippines
Hong Kong
How Many People Speak
90,000.0070,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
73.00 million60.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %16.00 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million52.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
45.00 million71.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Tagalog
Kwang Tung Wa
Alternative Names
Filipino, Pilipino
Guangfu, Metropolitan Cantonese
French Name
tagalog
cantonais
German Name
Tagalog
Kantonesisch
Pronunciation
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
[kʰɐn˧˥tʰœːn˧˥sɨ˧˥]
Ethnicity
Tagalog people
Han Chinese
Origin
1593
17th century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Sino-Tibetan Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
No early forms
Standard Forms
Filipino
Standard Cantonese
Language Position
581
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tagalog
Signed Cantonese
Scope
Individual
-
ISO 639 1
t1
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tgl
yue
ISO 639 2/B
tgl
yue
ISO 639 3
tg1
No data available
ISO 639 6
tgl
yue
Glottocode
taga1269
cant1236
Linguasphere
31-CKA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
-
Language Linguistic Typology
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
-