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Tagalog - Filipino Language

Tagalog - Filipino alphabet, orthography, language history and sources

Tagalog / Filipino language

Tagalog (Filipino): Official language of the Philippines.

Number of Tagalog Speakers: 40 million worldwide.

Tagalog Speakers: in United kingdom, Canada, United States, Saudi Arabia.

Language Classification: Austronesian language, not really related to languages of Indonesia, and others.

Tagalog Alphabet: Roman (Latin).

Tagalog Orthography: Morphologically complex language with many prefixes and suffixes. Stress is on the second syllable. Tagalog pronouns do not encode gender. He and she are both expressed with the same word. If one of the verb, noun, or adjective is pluralized, and no need to pluralize the others.

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Tagalog Language History: Three centuries of Spanish colonization did not affect the syntax of Tagalog. Tagalog became national language in 1947.

Tagalog Language Enriched by: Spanish.

Tagalog Standardization Efforts: National Language Academy prepared official grammar. 

Unique Features of Tagalog: 90 languages are spoken in the Philippines. Tagalog speakers constitute 46 percent of all population. Tagalog indicates emphasis by making the word the subject of the sentence.

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