“Eleven” in every Philippine language
Eleven across 9 languages, and what the differences tell you.
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Side by side
| Language | Eleven |
|---|---|
| English | Eleven |
| Tagalog | Labing-isa |
| Ilocano | Sangapulo ket maysa |
| Cebuano | Napulog usa |
| Hiligaynon | Napulo kag isa |
| Waray | Napulo kag usa |
| Bikol | Kagsaro |
| Kapampangan | Labing metung |
| Pangasinan | Labinsakey |
What the pattern shows
Three different strategies for building teens: Tagalog and Kapampangan prefix labing-, the Visayan languages say 'ten and one', and Bikol has a dedicated form (kagsaro).
No two languages here use the same word. That is unusual even on this list, and it is the clearest possible answer to whether these are dialects of one another.
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Where this comes from
This row is one of 84 concept pages drawn from a parallel set of everyday vocabulary held across nine languages. You can browse all of them, download the whole set under CC BY-SA 4.0, or paste text to find out which language it is.
Compiled from published general reference and pending review by native speakers. If something here is wrong in a language you speak, please tell us.