1 Countries
1.1 Countries
Benin, Nigeria
Philippines
1.2 Total No. Of Countries
3.2 National Language
3.3 Second Language
Not spoken in any of the countries
Filipinos
3.4 Speaking Continents
3.5 Minority Language
Africa, Brazil, Togo, United Kingdom, United States of America
Australia, Canada, Guam, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Singapore, United Kingdom
3.6 Regulated By
Yoruba Academy
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino, National Languages Committee
3.7 Interesting Facts
- One of the largest African ethnic groups is Yoruba in south of Sahara Desert.
- In Yoruba language, same combination of vowels and consonants have different meanings depending on the pitch of the vowels, so it is tonal language.
- 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".
3.8 Similar To
Owo and Itsekiri languages
Filipino, Cebuano and Spanish Languages
3.9 Derived From
Not Available
Not Available
4 Alphabets
4.1 Alphabets in
4.2 Alphabets
5.3 Phonology
5.3.1 How Many Vowels
5.5.3 How Many Consonants
5.7 Scripts
5.8 Writing Direction
Not Available
Left-To-Right, Horizontal
5.9 Hard to Learn
5.9.1 Language Levels
1.2.1 Time Taken to Learn
4 Greetings
4.1 Hello
4.2 Thank You
4.3 How Are You?
Bawo ni o se wa
Kamusta ka na?
4.4 Good Night
Kasun layọ o
Magandang gabi
4.5 Good Evening
ka a ale
Magandang gabi po
4.6 Good Afternoon
e kaasan
Magandang hapon po
4.7 Good Morning
e kaaro
Magandang umaga po
4.8 Please
4.9 Sorry
4.10 Bye
4.11 I Love You
4.12 Excuse Me
mo tọrọ gafara
Ipagpaumanhin ninyo ako
5 Dialects
5.1 Dialect 1
Itsekiri
Batangas Tagalog
5.1.1 Where They Speak
5.1.2 How Many People Speak
500,000.00NA
1.5
960000000
6.5 Dialect 2
6.5.1 Where They Speak
6.5.2 How Many People Speak
800,000.00NA
700
80000000
7.8 Dialect 3
7.8.1 Where They Speak
7.8.2 How Many People Speak
10,000.0090,000.00
1400
96000000
7.13 Total No. Of Dialects
4 How Many People Speak
4.1 How Many People Speak?
30.00 million73.00 million
0.13
1200
5.4 Speaking Population
6.4 Native Speakers
28.00 million28.00 million
0.13
873
7.9.2 Second Language Speakers
7.13.2 Native Name
7.13.3 Alternative Names
Yariba, Yooba
Filipino, Pilipino
7.13.4 French Name
7.13.5 German Name
7.14 Pronunciation
Not Available
[tɐˈɡaːloɡ]
7.15 Ethnicity
Yoruba people
Tagalog people
8 History
8.1 Origin
8.2 Language Family
Niger-Congo Family
Austronesian Family
8.2.1 Subgroup
Western Sudanic
Indonesian
8.2.2 Branch
8.3 Language Forms
8.3.1 Early Forms
No early forms
Proto-Philippine, Old Tagalog, Classical Tagalog, Tagalog
8.3.2 Standard Forms
8.3.3 Language Position
9.1.2 Signed Forms
Yoruba Sign Language
Not Available
9.2 Scope
10 Code
10.1 ISO 639 1
10.2 ISO 639 2
10.2.1 ISO 639 2/T
10.2.2 ISO 639 2/B
10.3 ISO 639 3
10.4 ISO 639 6
Not Available
Not Available
10.5 Glottocode
10.6 Linguasphere
10.7 Types of Language
10.7.1 Language Type
10.7.2 Language Linguistic Typology
Subject-Verb-Object
Object-Verb-Subject, Subject-Verb-Object, Verb-Object-Subject, Verb-Subject-Object
10.7.3 Language Morphological Typology
Analytic, Isolating
Not Available