Countries
Philippines
Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore
Total No. Of Countries
13
0
46
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National Language
Philippines
Malaysia
Second Language
Filipinos
Indonesia
Speaking Continents
Asia, Australia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
Thailand
Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka
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".
- One of the most politically powerful language historically is Malaysian Language.
- Malaysian earliest known inscriptions were found in South of Sumatra way back in 683-6 AD.
Similar To
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Indonesian Language
Derived From
-
Tamil Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2526
18
247
👆🏻
Phonology
How Many Vowels
56
0
32
👆🏻
How Many Consonants
1824
9
60
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Scripts
Baybayin
Latin
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
-
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
👆🏻
Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks36 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kamusta
Hai
Thank You
Salamat po
terima kasih
How Are You?
Kamusta ka na?
Apa khabar?
Good Night
Magandang gabi
Selamat Malam
Good Evening
Magandang gabi po
Selamat Petang
Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon po
Selamat tengah hari
Good Morning
Magandang umaga po
Selamat pagi
Please
pakiusap
sila
Sorry
pinagsisisihan
maaf
Bye
Paálam
Selamat tinggal
I Love You
Iniibig kita
Saya sayang kamu
Excuse Me
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
Maafkan saya
Dialect 1
Batangas Tagalog
Bengkulu
Where They Speak
Batangas, Gabon
Bengkulu Province, Sumatra
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.001,600,000.00
1.5
960000000
👆🏻
Dialect 2
Bisalog
Pekal
Where They Speak
Philippines
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0030,000.00
700
274000000
👆🏻
Dialect 3
Filipino
Musi
Where They Speak
Philippines
Indonesia
How Many People Speak
90,000.003,100,000.00
2
230000000
👆🏻
Total No. Of Dialects
324
0
188
👆🏻
How Many People Speak?
73.00 million175.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %1.16 %
0
89
👆🏻
Native Speakers
28.00 million77.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
45.00 million98.00 million
0.01
400
👆🏻
Native Name
Tagalog
Bahasa melayu
Alternative Names
Filipino, Pilipino
Bahasa Malaysia
French Name
tagalog
malais
German Name
Tagalog
Malaiisch
Pronunciation
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
[baˈhasə malajˈsiə]
Ethnicity
Tagalog people
Malaysian people
Origin
1593
c. 683 AD
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Austronesian Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
-
Branch
-
-
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
Ancient Malay, Old Malay, Pre-Modern MalayClassical Malay,
Standard Forms
Filipino
Pluricentric Standard Malay
Language Position
5854
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tagalog
Malaysian Sign Language
Scope
Individual
Individual
ISO 639 1
t1
ms
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tgl
msa
ISO 639 2/B
tgl
may
ISO 639 3
tg1
zsm
ISO 639 6
tgl
may
Glottocode
taga1269
stan1306
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
-
Agglutinative