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Tagalog
Tagalog

Japanese
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Countries

Countries

Philippines
Japan

Total No. Of Countries

11
0 46
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National Language

Philippines
Japan

Second Language

Filipinos
Not spoken in any of the countries

Speaking Continents

Asia, Australia
Asia, Pacific

Minority Language

Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
Palau

Regulated By

Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
Agency for Cultural Affairs (文化庁) at the Ministry of Education

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 Japanese Language, there are 4 different ways to address people: kun, chan, san and sama.
  • There are many words in Japanese language which end with vowel letter, which determines the structure and rhythm of Japanese.

Similar To

Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Korean Language

Derived From

-
-

Alphabets

Alphabets in

Alphabets

2599
18 247
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Phonology

How Many Vowels

55
0 32
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How Many Consonants

1814
9 60
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Scripts

Baybayin
Kana

Writing Direction

Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal, Top-To-Bottom

Hard to Learn

Language Levels

35
2 12
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Time Taken to Learn

44 weeks88 weeks
3 88
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Greetings

Hello

Kamusta
こんにちは (Kon'nichiwa)

Thank You

Salamat po
ありがとう (Arigatō)

How Are You?

Kamusta ka na?
お元気ですか (O genki desu ka?)

Good Night

Magandang gabi
おやすみなさい (Oyasuminasai)

Good Evening

Magandang gabi po
こんばんは (Konbanwa)

Good Afternoon

Magandang hapon po
こんにちは (Konnichiwa!)

Good Morning

Magandang umaga po
おはよう (Ohayō)

Please

pakiusap
お願いします (Onegaishimasu)

Sorry

pinagsisisihan
ごめんなさい (Gomen'nasai)

Bye

Paálam
さようなら (Sayōnara)

I Love You

Iniibig kita
愛しています (Aishiteimasu)

Excuse Me

Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
すみません (Sumimasen)

Dialects

Dialect 1

Batangas Tagalog
Sanuki

Where They Speak

Batangas, Gabon
Kagawa

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.001,000,000.00
1.5 960000000
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Dialect 2

Bisalog
Hakata

Where They Speak

Philippines
Fukuoka

How Many People Speak

28,000,000.00127,000,000.00
700 274000000
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Dialect 3

Filipino
Kansai

Where They Speak

Philippines
kansai

How Many People Speak

90,000.00127,000,000.00
2 230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects

331
0 188
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How Many People Speak

How Many People Speak?

73.00 million128.00 million
0 1200
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Speaking Population

0.42 %1.90 %
0 89
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Native Speakers

28.00 million128.00 million
0 873
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Second Language Speakers

45.00 million3.00 million
0.01 400
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Native Name

Tagalog
日本語

Alternative Names

Filipino, Pilipino
Nihongo

French Name

tagalog
japonais

German Name

Tagalog
Japanisch

Pronunciation

[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
/nihoɴɡo/: [nihõŋɡo], [nihõŋŋo]

Ethnicity

Tagalog people
Japanese (Yamato)

History

Origin

1593
1185

Language Family

Austronesian Family
Japonic Family

Subgroup

Indonesian
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Branch

-
-

Language Forms

Early Forms

Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
Old Japanese, Early Middle Japanese, Late Middle Japanese and Early Modern Japanese

Standard Forms

Filipino
Japanese

Language Position

588
1 120
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Signed Forms

Signed Tagalog
Signed Japanese

Scope

Individual
Individual

Code

ISO 639 1

t1
ja

ISO 639 2

ISO 639 2/T

tgl
jpn

ISO 639 2/B

tgl
jpn

ISO 639 3

tg1
jpn

ISO 639 6

tgl
jpn

Glottocode

taga1269
nucl1643

Linguasphere

31-CKA
45-CAA-a

Types of Language

Language Type

Living
Living

Language Linguistic Typology

Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
Subject-Object-Verb

Language Morphological Typology

-
Agglutinative, Synthetic

Tagalog and Japanese Alphabets

Tagalog and Japanese Alphabets provides you with alphabets, vowels and consonants in Tagalog and Japanese. In Tagalog Alphabets there are 25 letters while in Japanese Alphabets there are 99 letters. To learn Tagalog and Japanese languages the very first thing is to understand and learn alphabets of Tagalog and Japanese languages. The Tagalog phonology consist Tagalog vowels and Tagalog consonants. After alphabets, words are to be learned and after words, phrases in that language. Take a look at Tagalog greetings vs Japanese greetings, where you will find numerous useful phrases. Find whether Tagalog and Japanese are Most Spoken Languages.

All Tagalog and Japanese Dialects

Most languages have dialects where each dialect differ from other dialect with respect to grammar and vocabulary. Here you will get to know all Tagalog and Japanese dialects. Various dialects of Tagalog and Japanese language differ in their pronunciations and words. Dialects of Tagalog are spoken in different Tagalog Speaking Countries whereas Japanese Dialects are spoken in different Japanese speaking countries. Also the number of people speaking Tagalog vs Japanese Dialects varies from few thousands to many millions. Some of the Tagalog dialects include: Batangas Tagalog, Bisalog. Japanese dialects include: Sanuki , Hakata. Also learn about dialects in South American Languages and North American Languages.

Tagalog and Japanese Speaking population

Tagalog and Japanese speaking population is one of the factors based on which Tagalog and Japanese languages can be compared. The total count of Tagalog and Japanese Speaking population in percentage is also given. The percentage of people speaking Tagalog language is 0.42 % whereas the percentage of people speaking Japanese language is 1.90 %. When we compare the speaking population of any two languages we get to know which of two languages is more popular. Find more details about how many people speak Tagalog and Japanese on Tagalog vs Japanese where you will get native speakers, speaking population in percentage and native names.

Tagalog and Japanese Language Codes

Tagalog and Japanese language codes are used in those applications where using language names are tedious. Tagalog and Japanese Language Codes include all the international language codes, glottocodes and linguasphere.