Countries
Philippines
India, Nepal
Total No. Of Countries
12
0
46
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National Language
Philippines
Nepal
Second Language
Filipinos
Republic of Brazil
Speaking Continents
Asia, Australia
Asia
Minority Language
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
People's Republic of China
Regulated By
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
Language Academy of Nepal
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".
- Before the term "Nepali" was coined, historically the language was first called the Khas language, Gorkhali or Gukhali.
- Nepali has borrowed many loanwords from neighboring Tibeto-Burmese languages.
Similar To
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
Hindi
Derived From
-
Sanskrit Language
Alphabets in
Alphabets
2548
18
247
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Phonology
How Many Vowels
512
0
32
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How Many Consonants
1836
9
60
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Scripts
Baybayin
Devanagari
Writing Direction
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
Hard to Learn
Language Levels
36
2
12
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Time Taken to Learn
44 weeks44 weeks
3
88
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Hello
Kamusta
नमस्ते (namaste)
Thank You
Salamat po
धन्यवाद (dhanyabad)
How Are You?
Kamusta ka na?
तिमीलाई कस्तो छ? (timi lai kasto cha?)
Good Night
Magandang gabi
शुभ रात्री (subha ratri)
Good Evening
Magandang gabi po
शुभ सन्ध्या (subha sandhya)
Good Afternoon
Magandang hapon po
Good afternoon
Good Morning
Magandang umaga po
शुभ प्रभात (subha prabhat)
Please
pakiusap
कृपया
Sorry
pinagsisisihan
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Bye
Paálam
नमस्ते (namaste)
I Love You
Iniibig kita
म तपाइलाइ माया गर्छु। (ma tapainlai maya garchu)
Excuse Me
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
माफ गनुस् (maapha ganus)
Dialect 1
Batangas Tagalog
Doteli
Where They Speak
Batangas, Gabon
Nepal
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.00790,000.00
1.5
960000000
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Dialect 2
Bisalog
Bajhangi
Where They Speak
Philippines
India, Nepal
How Many People Speak
28,000,000.0017,000,000.00
700
274000000
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Dialect 3
Filipino
Baitadeli
Where They Speak
Philippines
Nepal
How Many People Speak
90,000.0017,000,000.00
2
230000000
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Total No. Of Dialects
312
0
188
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How Many People Speak?
73.00 million30.00 million
0
1200
👆🏻
Speaking Population
0.42 %0.25 %
0
89
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Native Speakers
28.00 million25.00 million
0
873
👆🏻
Second Language Speakers
45.00 million5.00 million
0.01
400
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Native Name
Tagalog
नेपाली (nēpālī)
Alternative Names
Filipino, Pilipino
Eastern Pahadi, Gorkhali, Gurkhali, Khaskura, Nepalese, Parbate
French Name
tagalog
népalais
German Name
Tagalog
Nepali
Pronunciation
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
[neˈpali]
Ethnicity
Tagalog people
Gurkha, Khas people, Madhesi and Tharu
Origin
1593
19 BC
Language Family
Austronesian Family
Indo-European Family
Subgroup
Indonesian
Indo-Iranian
Branch
-
Indic
Language Forms
Early Forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
Khas language, Gurkhali, Parbatiya, Dzongkha Lhotshammikha
Standard Forms
Filipino
Nepali
Language Position
5859
1
120
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Signed Forms
Signed Tagalog
Signed Nepali
Scope
Individual
Individual, Macrolanguage
ISO 639 1
t1
ne
ISO 639 2
ISO 639 2/T
tgl
nep
ISO 639 2/B
tgl
nep
ISO 639 3
tg1
npi
ISO 639 6
tgl
nep
Glottocode
taga1269
nepa1254
Linguasphere
31-CKA
12
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
-
Agglutinative