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Tagalog (/ t ə ˈ ɡ ɑː l ɒ ɡ /, tə-GAH-log; [tɐˈɡaːloɡ]; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as a second language by the majority.
- Tagalog People
Etymology. The commonly perpetuated origin for the endonym...
- Austronesian Language
The Austronesian languages (/ ˌ ɔː s t r ə ˈ n iː ʒ ən /)...
- Tagalog Phonology
Tagalog words are often distinguished from one another by...
- Bisayan Languages
The Bisayan languages or Visayan languages are a subgroup of...
- Philippine Languages
The Philippine languages or Philippinic are a proposed group...
- Wikang Tagalog
Ang wikang Tagalog (Baybayin:ᜏᜒᜃᜅ᜔ ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔), o ang Tagalog,...
- Batangas
Batangas, officially the Province of Batangas (Tagalog:...
- Tagalog People
There are approximately 4,000 Spanish loan words in Tagalog (between 20% and 33% of Tagalog words), and around 6,000 Spanish words in Visayan and other Philippine languages. The Spanish counting system, calendar, time, etc. are still in use with slight modifications.
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Tagalog and Cebuano are the most commonly spoken native languages, together comprising about half of the population of the Philippines. Filipino and English are the only official languages and are taught in schools. This, among other reasons, has resulted in a rivalry between the Tagalog and Cebuano language groups.
The Tagalog Wikipedia ( Tagalog: Wikipediang Tagalog; Baybayin: ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔ ᜏᜒᜃᜒᜉᜒᜇᜒᜌ) is the Tagalog language edition of Wikipedia, which was launched on December 1, 2003. It has 47,346 articles and is the 103rd largest Wikipedia according to the number of articles as of May 18, 2024.
- Tagalog
- Miami, Florida
- December 1, 2003; 19 years ago
- Wikimedia Foundation
The 1987 constitution designates Filipino, a standardized version of Tagalog, as the national language and an official language along with English. Filipino is regulated by Commission on the Filipino Language and serves as a lingua franca used by Filipinos of various ethnolinguistic backgrounds.
Philippine Spanish ( Spanish: español filipino or castellano filipino) [4] is the variety of standard Spanish spoken in the Philippines, used primarily by Spanish Filipinos .
Background. The Philippines is a multilingual state with 175 living languages originating and spoken by various ethno-linguistic groups. Many of these languages descend from a common Malayo-Polynesian language due to the Austronesian migration from Taiwan.
