Tagalog language

Not to be confused with Tagalag (or Tagalaka) language or Filipino language.

Tagalog
Wikang Tagalog
ᜏᜒᜃᜅ᜔ ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔
Pronunciation[tɐˈɡaːloɡ] ⓘ
Native toPhilippines
RegionKatagalugan; Metro Manila, Parts of Central Luzon, Most of Calabarzon, Parts of Mimaropa, and Northwestern Bicol Region
EthnicityTagalog
SpeakersL1: 29 million (2010)[1]
L2: 54 million (2020)[1]
Total: 83 million[1]
Early forms
Standard forms
Dialects
  • Bataan
  • Batangas
  • Bulacan
  • Lubang
  • Manila
  • Marinduque
  • Puray
  • Tanay–Paete (Eastern Rizal-Northern Laguna)
  • Tayabas[2]
  • Soccsksargen Tagalog (Mindanao)[3]
Official status
Official language in
Philippines (as Filipino)
ASEAN (as Filipino)
Recognised minority
language in
Philippines (as a regional language and an auxiliary official language in the predominantly Tagalog-speaking areas of the Philippines)
Regulated byKomisyon sa Wikang Filipino
Language codes
ISO 639-1tl
ISO 639-2tgl
ISO 639-3tgl
Glottologtaga1280  Tagalogic
taga1269  Tagalog-Filipino
taga1270  Tagalog
Linguasphere31-CKA
Predominantly Tagalog-speaking regions in the Philippines
A Tagalog speaker, recorded in South Africa.

Tagalog (/təˈɡɑːlɒɡ/, tə-GAH-log;[4] [tɐˈɣaː.loɡ]; 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, mostly as or through Filipino. Its standardized, codified, national or nationalized, intellectualized, more linguistically inclusive, more linguistically dynamic, and expanded or broadened form, officially named Filipino, is the national language of the Philippines, and is one of the latter's two official languages, alongside English. Tagalog, like the other and as one of the regional languages of the Philippines, which majority are Austronesian, is one of the auxiliary official languages of the Philippines in the regions and also one of the auxiliary media of instruction therein.

Tagalog is closely related to other Philippine languages, such as the Bikol languages, the Bisayan languages, Ilocano, Kapampangan, and Pangasinan, and more distantly to other Austronesian languages, such as the Formosan languages of Taiwan, Indonesian, Malay, Hawaiian, Māori, Malagasy, and many more.

  1. ^ a b c Tagalog at Ethnologue (27th ed., 2024) Closed access icon
  2. ^ Manuel, E. Arsenio (1971). A Lexicographic Study of Tayabas Tagalog of Quezon Province. Diliman Review. Archived from the original on February 24, 2024. Retrieved February 24, 2024.
  3. ^ "The Morphology of Sox-Tagalog". medium.com. Retrieved November 3, 2024.
  4. ^ According to the OED and Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary Archived January 21, 2018, at the Wayback Machine