17 Facts About Tagalog language

Possible words of Old Tagalog language origin are attested in the Laguna Copperplate Inscription from the tenth century, which is largely written in Old Malay.

President Manuel L Quezon then, on December 30, 1937, proclaimed the selection of the Tagalog language to be used as the basis for the evolution and adoption of the national language of the Philippines.

Tagalog language is spoken natively by inhabitants living on the islands of Marinduque and Mindoro, as well as Palawan to a lesser extent.

In urban areas, Tagalog ranked as the third most spoken non-English language, behind Spanish and Chinese varieties but ahead of French.

Study based on data from the United States Census Bureau's 2015 American Consumer Survey shows that Tagalog is the most commonly spoken non-English language after Spanish in California, Nevada, and Washington states.

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Election ballots in Nevada include instructions written in Tagalog language, which was first introduced in the 2020 United States presidential elections.

At present, no comprehensive dialectology has been done in the Tagalog language-speaking regions, though there have been descriptions in the form of dictionaries and grammars of various Tagalog language dialects.

Linguist Rosa Soberano identifies two dialects, western and eastern, with the former being closer to the Tagalog language dialects spoken in the provinces of Batangas and Quezon.

Tagalog language has 33 phonemes: 19 of them are consonants and 14 are vowels.

Tagalog language has ten simple vowels, five long and five short, and four diphthongs.

In 1889, the new bilingual Spanish-Tagalog language La Espana Oriental newspaper, of which Isabelo de los Reyes was an editor, began publishing using the new orthography stating in a footnote that it would "use the orthography recently introduced by.

In 1937, Tagalog was selected to serve as basis for the country's national language.

Tagalog language was written in an abugida called Baybayin prior to the Spanish colonial period in the Philippines, in the 16th century.

Until the first half of the 20th century, Tagalog language was widely written in a variety of ways based on Spanish orthography consisting of 32 letters called 'ABECEDARIO'.

Tagalog language has incorporated many Spanish and English loanwords; the necessity of which increases in more technical parlance.

Tagalog language has contributed several words to Philippine Spanish, like barangay, the abaca, cogon, palay, dalaga etc.

The first Bible in Tagalog language, then called Ang Biblia and now called Ang Dating Biblia ("the Old Bible"), was published in 1905.