Countries
Philippines
Sri Lanka
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Philippines
Sri Lanka
Second Language
Filipinos
Sri Lanka
Speaking Continents
Asia, Australia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
Hela Havula (හෙළ හවුල)
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 Sinhalese language, there are many loanwords from Dravidian languages mainly Tamil, Portuguese, Dutch and English.
- Sinhalese language has it own script/ writing system.
Similar To
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Maldivian Language
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2554
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
518
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1836
9
60
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Scripts
Baybayin
Sinhala alphabet
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
32
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kamusta
හලෝ (halō)
Thank You
Salamat po
ඔබට ස්තුතියි (obaṭa stutiyi)
How Are You?
Kamusta ka na?
ඔබ කොහොමද (oba kohomada)
Good Night
Magandang gabi
සුභ රාත්රියක් (subha rātriyak)
Good Evening
Magandang gabi po
සුබ සැන්දෑවක් (suba sændǣvak)
Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon po
සුභ සන්ධ්යාවක් (subha sandhyāvak)
Good Morning
Magandang umaga po
සුභ උදෑසනක් (subha udǣsanak)
Please
pakiusap
කරුණාකර (karuṇākara)
Sorry
pinagsisisihan
සමාවන්න (samāvanna)
Bye
Paálam
බායි (bāyi)
I Love You
Iniibig kita
මම ඔයාට ආදරෙයි (mama oyāṭa ādareyi)
Excuse Me
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
මට සමාවෙන්න (maṭa samāvenna)
Dialect 1
Batangas Tagalog
Vedda
Where They Speak
Batangas, Gabon
Sri Lanka
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0019,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bisalog
Sri Lankan Sinhala
Where They Speak
Philippines
-
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0019,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Filipino
Up-Country Sinhalese
Where They Speak
Philippines
-
How Many People Speak
90,000.0016,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
31
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
73.00 million16.00 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.42 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
28.00 million16.00 million
0
873
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Second Language Speakers
45.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Tagalog
සිංහල (sĩhala)
Alternative Names
Filipino, Pilipino
Cingalese, Singhala, Singhalese, Sinhala
French Name
tagalog
singhalais
German Name
Tagalog
Singhalesisch
Pronunciation
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
[ˈsiŋhəliːz]
Ethnicity
Tagalog people
Sinhalese people
Origin
1593
3
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
Sinhalese Prakrit
Standard Forms
Filipino
Modern Sinhalese
Language Position
5870
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tagalog
Signed Sinhalese
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
t1
si
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tgl
sin
ISO 639 2/B
tgl
sin
ISO 639 3
tg1
sin
ISO 639 6
tgl
sin
Glottocode
taga1269
sinh1246
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
Subject-Object-Verb
Language Morphological Typology
-
Fusional