Countries
Philippines
Indonesia
Total No. Of Countries
11
0
46
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National Language
Philippines
Indonesia
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
Malaysia, Netherlands, Singapore, Suriname
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".
- The Javanese group is the largest ethnic group in Indonesian.
- The earliest writing in Javanese dates from the 4th Century AD, at that time Javanese was written with the Pallava alphabet.
Similar To
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Madurese, Sundanese and Balinese Languages
Derived From
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-
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2527
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1821
9
60
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Scripts
Baybayin
Arabic, Javanese, Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
34
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kamusta
Halo
Thank You
Salamat po
matur nuwun
How Are You?
Kamusta ka na?
piye kabare?
Good Night
Magandang gabi
wengi sing apik
Good Evening
Magandang gabi po
Sugeng sọnten
Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon po
Sugeng siang
Good Morning
Magandang umaga po
Sugeng énjing
Please
pakiusap
matur nuwun
Sorry
pinagsisisihan
Nyuwun pangapunten
Bye
Paálam
Kepanggih malih benjang
I Love You
Iniibig kita
Kula tresna panjengan
Excuse Me
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
Nuwun séwu
Dialect 1
Batangas Tagalog
Pekalongan
Where They Speak
Batangas, Gabon
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0082,000,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bisalog
Cirebon
Where They Speak
Philippines
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0082,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Filipino
Arekan
Where They Speak
Philippines
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
90,000.0082,000,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
316
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
73.00 million82.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %1.25 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million76.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
45.00 million82.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Tagalog
basa Jawa
Alternative Names
Filipino, Pilipino
Djawa, Jawa
French Name
tagalog
javanais
German Name
Tagalog
Javanisch
Pronunciation
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
[dʒɑˈʋɑnɛs]
Ethnicity
Tagalog people
Javanese (Mataram, Osing, Tenggerese, Boyanese, Samin, Cirebonese, Banyumasan, etc)
Origin
1593
450 AD
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Indonesian
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
No early forms
Standard Forms
Filipino
Javanese
Language Position
5811
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tagalog
Javanese Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
t1
jv
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tgl
jav
ISO 639 2/B
tgl
jav
ISO 639 3
tg1
jav
ISO 639 6
tgl
jav
Glottocode
taga1269
java1253
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-Verb-Object
Language Morphological Typology
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Agglutinative