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Filipino
Filipino
Native to	Philippines
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central Philippine Tagalog Filipino; ; ; ;
Writing system	Filipino alphabet (Latin script)
Official status
Official language in	Philippines
Recognised minority; language in	Thailand; Malaysia; Indonesia; Myanmar; Cambodia United States;
Regulated by	Commission on the Filipino Language; (Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino)
Language codes
ISO 639-2	fil
ISO 639-3	fil

Filipino is a form of the Tagalog language. It is the national language of the Philippines.^[1] About one third of the people in the Philippines speak Tagalog as a first language.

Young man speak Filipino

Filipino is used as the formal name of Tagalog. Sometimes it even means the same thing. It is usually called Tagalog in the Philippines and among Filipinos to show that it is different from other Philippine languages.

References[change | change source]

↑ J.U. Wolff, "Tagalog", in the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2006

[ELL-1] J.U. Wolff, "Tagalog", in the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2006

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