Tagalog language

Tagalog
Tagalog
Wikang Tagalog; ᜏᜒᜃᜅ᜔ ᜆᜄᜎᜓᜄ᜔
Pronunciation	[tɐˈɡaːloɡ] ⓘ
Native to	Philippines
Region	Metro Manila, parts of Central Luzon, most of Calabarzon, parts of Mimaropa, northwestern Bicol Region, and Ilocos Region (southeast Pangasinan)
Ethnicity	Tagalog
Speakers	L1: 33 million (2023); L2: 54 million (2020); Total: 87 million (2020–2023)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Central Philippine Kasiguranin–Tagalog Tagalog; ; ; ; ; ;
Early forms	Proto-Austronesian Proto-Malayo-Polynesian Proto-Philippine Proto-Greater Central Philippine Proto-Central Philippine Old Tagalog ; ; ; ; ;
Standard forms	Filipino;
Dialects	Bataan; Batangas; Bulacan; Lubang; Standard Tagalog (Manila dialect); Marinduque; Puray; Tanay–Paete (Eastern Rizal-Northern Laguna); Tayabas; Soccsksargen (Mindanao);
Writing system	Latin (Filipino alphabet);; Baybayin (Revitalizing)
Official status
Official language in	Philippines (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 by	Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
Language codes
ISO 639-1	tl
ISO 639-2	tgl
ISO 639-3	tgl
Glottolog	taga1280 Tagalogic; taga1269 Tagalog-Filipino; taga1270 Tagalog
Linguasphere	31-CKA
	Predominantly Tagalog-speaking regions in the Philippines
	Global distribution of Tagalog speakers. Countries with more than 500,000 speakers Countries with between 100,000–500,000 speakers Countries where it is spoken by minor communities

Tagalog (/təˈɡɑːlɒɡ/ tə-GAH-log; native pronunciation: [tɐˈɡaːloɡ] ^ⓘ; 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. 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.

Tagalog, like other Austronesian languages, commonly uses verb-subject-object order, but can also use subject-verb-object order. Tagalog follows the trigger system of morphosyntactic alignment that is common among Philippine languages. It has head-initial directionality. It is an agglutinative language but can also display inflection. It is not a tonal language and can be considered a pitch-accent language and a syllable-timed language. It has nine basic parts of speech.

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.