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 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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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)
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
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
331
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
73.00 million128.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %1.90 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million128.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
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)
Origin
1593
1185
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Japonic Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
-
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
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