![]() ![]() Officially, Filipino is defined by the Commission on the Filipino Language (Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino in Filipino or simply KWF) as "the native dialect, spoken and written, in Metro Manila, the National Capital Region, and in other urban centers of the archipelago."įilipino is officially taken to be a pluricentric language, as it is further enriched and developed by the other existing Philippine languages according to the mandate of the 1987 Constitution. Tagalog is among the 185 languages of the Philippines identified in the Ethnologue. As of 2007, Tagalog is the first language of 28 million people, or about one-third of the Philippine population, while 45 million speak Tagalog as their second language. ![]() It is a standardized variety of the Tagalog language, an Austronesian regional language that is widely spoken in the Philippines. Filipino is also designated, along with English, as an official language of the country. Also known as Pilipino, is the national language (Wikang pambansa / Pambansang wika) of the Philippines.
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