Countries
Philippines
India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Philippines
Kerala, India, Lakshadweep, Puducherry
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
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
Academy for Malayalam literature, Government of Kerala
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".
- Malayalam language has 54 literals. Same sounds have different versions to it.
- Malayalam script is reffered as "Rod Script" and it is derived from the Grantha script, which was developed from Indic script of Brahmi.
Similar To
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Tamil and Sanskrit Languages
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2553
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
515
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1841
9
60
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Scripts
Baybayin
Brahmic family and derivatives
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kamusta
ഹലോ (halēā)
Thank You
Salamat po
നന്ദി (nandi)
How Are You?
Kamusta ka na?
സുഖമാണോ? (sukhamāṇēā?)
Good Night
Magandang gabi
ശുഭ രാത്രി (śubha rātri)
Good Evening
Magandang gabi po
ഗുഡ് ഈവനിംഗ് (guḍ īvaniṅg)
Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon po
ഗുഡ് ആഫ്റ്റർനൂൺ (guḍ āphṟṟarnūṇ)
Good Morning
Magandang umaga po
രാവിലെ (rāvile)
Please
pakiusap
ദയവായി (dayavāyi)
Sorry
pinagsisisihan
ക്ഷമിക്കണം (kṣamikkaṇaṁ)
Bye
Paálam
വിട (viṭa)
I Love You
Iniibig kita
ഞാൻ നിന്നെ സ്നേഹിക്കുന്നു (ñān ninne snēhikkunnu)
Excuse Me
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
എക്സ്ക്യൂസ് മീ (ekskyūs mī)
Dialect 1
Batangas Tagalog
Judeo-Malayalam
Where They Speak
Batangas, Gabon
Israel, kerala
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0038,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bisalog
Mappila
Where They Speak
Philippines
India
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0038,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Filipino
Pandy Malayalam
Where They Speak
Philippines
France, kerala
How Many People Speak
90,000.0038,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
33
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
73.00 million38.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %0.57 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
28.00 million38.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
45.00 million38.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Tagalog
മലയാളം (malayāḷam)
Alternative Names
Filipino, Pilipino
Alealum, Malayalani, Malayali, Malean, Maliyad, Mallealle, Mopla
French Name
tagalog
malayalam
German Name
Tagalog
Malayalam
Pronunciation
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
[mɐləjaːɭɐm]
Ethnicity
Tagalog people
Malayali
Origin
1593
9th Century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
No early form
Standard Forms
Filipino
Malayalam
Language Position
5829
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tagalog
Signed Malayalam
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
t1
ml
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tgl
mal
ISO 639 2/B
tgl
mal
ISO 639 3
tg1
mal
ISO 639 6
tgl
mal
Glottocode
taga1269
mala1464
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
-
Synthetic