Countries
Philippines
India
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Philippines
India
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
Not spoken in any of the countries
Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
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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".
- Tulu script is similar to Thigalaya script, which was one of the earliest scripts such as Persian and Latin.
- Tulu is a protoDravidian i.e original language.
Similar To
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Kannada Language
Derived From
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Alphabets in
Alphabets
2551
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
516
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1835
9
60
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Scripts
Baybayin
Kannada Script
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
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Hard to Learn
Language Levels
35
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kamusta
Namaskara
Thank You
Salamat po
Mast Upakara.
How Are You?
Kamusta ka na?
Yencha Ullar?
Good Night
Magandang gabi
yedde rathre
Good Evening
Magandang gabi po
yedde baiyya
Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon po
yedde madhyana
Good Morning
Magandang umaga po
yedde kaande
Please
pakiusap
Daya maltadu
Sorry
pinagsisisihan
Yenna thapu aandu
Bye
Paálam
Barpe
I Love You
Iniibig kita
Yank ninade preeti Malpuye
Excuse Me
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
Kshamisi
Dialect 1
Batangas Tagalog
Brahmin tulu
Where They Speak
Batangas, Gabon
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.002,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bisalog
Jain
Where They Speak
Philippines
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.001,900,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Filipino
Girijan
Where They Speak
Philippines
Tamil Nadu
How Many People Speak
90,000.002.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
34
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
73.00 million1.70 million
0
1200
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Speaking Population
0.42 %0.01 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
28.00 million1.70 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
45.00 million2.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Tagalog
Tulu
Alternative Names
Filipino, Pilipino
Tal, Tallu, Thalu, Thulu, Tilu, Tullu, Tuluva Bhasa
French Name
tagalog
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German Name
Tagalog
Tulu
Pronunciation
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
[ˈtulu]
Ethnicity
Tagalog people
Tuluva
Origin
1593
14
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Dravidian Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
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Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
No early forms
Standard Forms
Filipino
Tulu
Language Position
5823
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tagalog
Signed Tulu
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
t1
No data available
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tgl
tcy
ISO 639 2/B
tgl
tul
ISO 639 3
tg1
tcy
ISO 639 6
tgl
tcy
Glottocode
taga1269
tulu1258
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
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Language Morphological Typology
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