15 Facts About Tagalog people

Tagalog people are the largest ethnolinguistic group in the Philippines, numbering at around 30 million.

An Austronesian people, the Tagalog have a well developed society due to their cultural heartland, Manila, being the capital city of the Philippines.

Various Tagalog people societies were established in present-day Calatagan, Tayabas, shores of Lake Laguna, Marinduque, and Malolos.

The first substantial dictionary of Tagalog people language was written by the Czech Jesuit missionary Pablo Clain in the beginning of the 18th century.

Tagalog people played an active role during the 1896 Philippine Revolution and many of its leaders were either from Manila or surrounding provinces.

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Tagalog people was declared the official language by the first constitution in the Philippines, the Constitution of Biak-na-Bato in 1897.

The 1973 constitution designated the Tagalog people-based "Pilipino", along with English, as an official language and mandated the development and formal adoption of a common national language to be known as Filipino.

Tagalog people settlements are generally lowland, commonly oriented towards banks near the delta or wawa.

Likewise, most cultural aspects of the Tagalog people orient towards decentralized specializations of provinces and towns.

Tagalog people cuisine is not defined ethnically or in centralized culinary institutions, but instead by town, province, or even region with specialized dishes developed largely at homes or various kinds of restaurants.

Bistek Tagalog people is a dish of strips of sirloin beef slowly cooked in soy sauce, calamansi juice, vinegar and onions.

Tagalog people are known for their tanaga, an indigenous artistic poetic form of the Tagalog people's idioms, feelings, teachings, and ways of life.

Metalworking is one of the most prominent trades of pre-colonial Tagalog people, noted for the abundance of terms recorded in Vocabulario de la Lengua Tagala that is related to metalworking, signifying a sophisticated practice of this art which has died down during the colonial period.

Precolonial Tagalog people societies were largely animist, alongside a gradual spread of mostly syncretic forms of Islam since roughly the early 16th century.

Tagalog people were skilled Spanish speakers from the 18th to 19th centuries due to the Spanish colonial occupation era.