Tagalog 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.
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ISO 639-3 Code Speaker CountEthnologue total figure, 2020-2023. StatusWikipedia article on Tagalog: a currently spoken living language with an active native-speaker population; checked 2026-09-27. RegionMetro Manila, Central Luzon, Calabarzon, Mimaropa, northwestern Bicol, Ilocos Region 2 Browse and compare
Difficulty for an English Speaker Classification
Language Kind Official Status Connections
In Family
Source Wikipedia: Tagalog Language
Written In
In the Other Atlases
Original Language Of
Also in Film and Media Atlas: a work originally in this language.
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Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.
Source Francisco Balagtas (Wikipedia)Lead section [original-language]Quote, Lead section [original-language]
litterateur of the Tagalog language
Also in Literature Atlas: a work originally in this language.
Source Wikipedia: TanagaLead paragraphQuote, Lead paragraph
traditionally in the Tagalog language
Located In
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Found In
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Source Glottolog
Sources
1. Glottolog: Tagalog (Glottolog languoid taga1270)
GlottologEndangerment, AES statusQuote, Endangerment, AES status
AES status: not endangered
2. Wikipedia: Tagalog Language
Wikimedia FoundationLead section
Tagalog ... 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.
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tgl
Infobox, Speakers (Total)
87 million (2020-2023)
Infobox: region
Metro Manila, parts of Central Luzon, most of Calabarzon, parts of Mimaropa, northwestern Bicol Region, and Ilocos Region (southeast Pangasinan)
Official status, Tagalog entity page
Its standardized and codified form, Filipino, is the national language of the Philippines, and is one language of the nation's two official languages, alongside English.
In Family: Austronesian, Article text
Tagalog is a Central Philippine language within the Austronesian language family. Being Malayo-Polynesian, it is related to other Austronesian languages, such as Malagasy, Javanese, Indonesian, Malay, Tetum (of Timor), and Yami (of Taiwan).
View the Source 3. WALS Online (World Atlas of Language Structures): Tagalog / Order of Subject, Object and Verb (WALS datapoint)
WALS Online (World Atlas of Language Structures)Datapoint pageQuote, Datapoint page
Feature: Order of Subject, Object and Verb by Matthew S. Dryer Value: VSO
4. WALS Online (World Atlas of Language Structures): Tagalog / Tone (WALS datapoint)
WALS Online (World Atlas of Language Structures)Datapoint pageQuote, Datapoint page
Feature: Tone by Ian Maddieson Value: No tones
5. Effective Language Learning: Language Difficulty Ranking
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Category IV: 44 weeks (1100 hours) Languages with significant linguistic and/or cultural differences from English Albanian Amharic Armenian Azerbaijani Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Burmese Croatian Czech * Estonian * Finnish * Georgian Greek Hebrew Hindi * Hungarian Icelandic Khmer Lao Latvian Lithuanian Macedonian * Mongolian Nepali Pashto Persian (Dari, Farsi, Tajik) Polish Russian Serbian Sinhala Slovak Slovenian Tagalog
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