Filipino language
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.
| Filipino | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Philippines |
| Language family | |
| 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 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.
Filipino Language Media
A Filipino speaker, recorded in the Philippines
References
- ↑ J.U. Wolff, "Tagalog", in the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2006