Countries
Philippines
Nigeria
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
👆🏻
National Language
Philippines
Nigeria
Second Language
Filipinos
Not spoken in any of the countries
Speaking Continents
Asia, Australia
Africa
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
Equatorial Guinea
Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture
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".
- In Igbo, there is complicated system of high and low tones indicating differences in meaning and grammatical relationships.
- Igbo has inexhaustible and rich linguistic features like idioms, proverbs, aphorisms, anecdotes etc.
Similar To
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Yoruba and Hausa Languages
Derived From
-
-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2536
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
58
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1828
9
60
👆🏻
Scripts
Baybayin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
33
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks52 weeks
3
88
👆🏻
Hello
Kamusta
kedụ
Thank You
Salamat po
dalụ
How Are You?
Kamusta ka na?
kedụ ka ịmere
Good Night
Magandang gabi
ka chi fo
Good Evening
Magandang gabi po
mgbede ọma
Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon po
ehihie ọma
Good Morning
Magandang umaga po
ụtụtụ ọma
Please
pakiusap
Biko
Sorry
pinagsisisihan
Ndo
Bye
Paálam
Kachifo
I Love You
Iniibig kita
a hụrụ m gị n'anya
Excuse Me
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
ngọpụ
Dialect 1
Batangas Tagalog
Enuani
Where They Speak
Batangas, Gabon
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0028,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Bisalog
Ngwa
Where They Speak
Philippines
Nigeria
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.001,500,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Filipino
Not present
Where They Speak
Philippines
-
How Many People Speak
90,000.0024.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
320
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
73.00 million25.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %0.09 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
45.00 million24.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Tagalog
igbo
Alternative Names
Filipino, Pilipino
Ibo
French Name
tagalog
igbo
German Name
Tagalog
Ibo-Sprache
Pronunciation
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
[iɡ͡boː]
Ethnicity
Tagalog people
Igbo people
Origin
1593
30th Century BC
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Niger-Congo Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Kwa
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
No early forms
Standard Forms
Filipino
Standard Igbo
Language Position
5857
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tagalog
Igbo Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
t1
ig
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tgl
ibo
ISO 639 2/B
tgl
ibo
ISO 639 3
tg1
ibo
ISO 639 6
tgl
ibo
Glottocode
taga1269
nucl1417
Linguasphere
31-CKA
No data available
Types of Language
Language Type
Living
Living
Language Linguistic Typology
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
-
Language Morphological Typology
-
Agglutinative