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A compromise solution was worked out—a "universalist" approach to the national language, to be called Filipino rather than Pilipino. The 1973 constitution makes no mention of Tagalog. When a new constitution was drawn up in 1987, it named Filipino as the national language.
It is the native tongue of the people in the Tagalog region in the northern island Luzon. It was declared the basis for the national language in 1937 by then President of the Commonwealth Republic, Manuel L. Quezon and it was renamed Pilipino in 1959.
On December 30, President Quezon issued Executive Order No. 134, s. 1937, approving the adoption of Tagalog as the language of the Philippines, and proclaimed the national language of the Philippines so based on the Tagalog language.
Jul 18, 2020 · As the United States began administering the islands, English also started influencing Tagalog. Tagalog was chosen as a national language. Skipping ahead to the American Commonwealth times, the Philippine’s 1935 Constitution declared that there be two national languages, “Filipino” and English.
Pilipino language, standardized form of Tagalog, and one of the two official languages of the Philippines (the other being English). It is a member of the Austronesian language phylum. Tagalog is the mother tongue for nearly 25 percent of the population and is spoken as a first or second language.
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Dec 30, 2012 · How Filipino became the national language. Dec 30, 2012 2:42 PM PHT. ... Philippines – Seventy-five years ago today, President Manuel L. Quezon addressed the nation in Filipino via radio ...
National and official languages Language map of the 12 recognized auxiliary languages based on Ethnologue maps. History. Spanish was the official language of the country for more than three centuries under Spanish colonial rule, and became the lingua franca of the Philippines in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
