Countries
Philippines
Fiji, India
Total No. Of Countries
12
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, Oceania
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
Central Hindi Directorate
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 Hindi language, nouns are followed by post positions.
- In Hindi, there are many familiar words in English which are in Hindi or of Hindi origin.
Similar To
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Urdu
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2544
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
511
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1833
9
60
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Scripts
Baybayin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kamusta
नमस्ते (Namastē)
Thank You
Salamat po
धन्यवाद (Dhan'yavāda)
How Are You?
Kamusta ka na?
तुम कैसे हो? (Tuma kaisē hō?)
Good Night
Magandang gabi
शुभरात्रि (Śubharātri)
Good Evening
Magandang gabi po
शुभ सन्ध्या (shubh sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon po
दोपहर के बाद नमस्कार (dopahar ke bad namaskar)
Good Morning
Magandang umaga po
सुप्रभात (Suprabhāta)
Please
pakiusap
कृपया (Kr̥payā)
Sorry
pinagsisisihan
खेद (Khēda)
Bye
Paálam
अलविदा (Alavidā)
I Love You
Iniibig kita
मैं आपसे प्यार करता (Maiṁ āpasē pyāra karatā)
Excuse Me
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
मुझे माफ करें (Mujhē māpha karēṁ)
Dialect 1
Batangas Tagalog
Khariboli
Where They Speak
Batangas, Gabon
Delhi, Haryana, Western Uttar Pradesh
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00240,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bisalog
Marwari
Where They Speak
Philippines
Gujarat, Haryana, Rajasthan, Sindh
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0022,000,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Filipino
Bundeli
Where They Speak
Philippines
Bundelkhand
How Many People Speak
90,000.0020,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
321
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
73.00 million380.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %4.70 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million260.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
45.00 million120.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Tagalog
हिन्दी
Alternative Names
Filipino, Pilipino
Khadi Boli, Khari Boli
French Name
tagalog
hindi
German Name
Tagalog
Hindi
Pronunciation
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
[ˈmaːnək ˈɦin̪d̪iː]
Ethnicity
Tagalog people
Hindustani people
Origin
1593
7th Century
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
No early forms
Standard Forms
Filipino
Standard Hindi
Language Position
585
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tagalog
Indian Signing System
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
t1
hi
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tgl
hin
ISO 639 2/B
tgl
hin
ISO 639 3
tg1
hin
ISO 639 6
tgl
hins
Glottocode
taga1269
hind1269
Linguasphere
31-CKA
59-AAF-qf
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
-
Fusional, Synthetic