Tagalog
Austronesian language; native language of the Tagalog ethnic group
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Summary
Tagalog is a natural language[1]. Tagalog ranks in the top 3% of natural language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (21,201 views/month).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Philippines[3]
- Instance of: modern language[4]
- Subclass of: Tagalogic[5]
- Writing system: Latin script[6], Filipino alphabet[7], Abakada alphabet[8], Philippine Braille[9], Baybayin[10]
- Commons category: Tagalog language[11]
- Wikimedia language code: tl[12]
- IPA transcription: [tɐˈɡaːloɡ][13], /təˈɡɑːlɒɡ/[14]
- Topic's main category: Category:Tagalog language[15]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 23,600,000[16], 28,000,000[17], 45,000,000[18]
- Described by source: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[19]
- Stack Exchange tag: https://linguistics.stackexchange.com/tags/tagalog[20]
- Native label: wikang Tagalog[21]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C154164[22]
- Different from: Tantalog[23]
- Indigenous to: Philippines[24], Luzon[25]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/TGL[26]
- Has grammatical case: direct case[27], absolutive case[28], oblique case[29]
- Has tense: present tense[30], past tense[31], future tense[32], present perfect[33]
- Ethnologue language status: 3 Wider Communication[34]
- Linguistic typology: subject–verb–object[35], verb–subject–object[36], verb–object–subject[37], object–verb–subject[38], adjective-noun[39], synthetic language[40], agglutinative language[41], pitch accent[42], syllabic language[43]
Why It Matters
Tagalog has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[44] Tagalog is known by 85 alternative names across languages and contexts.[45]