The Philippine language is called Tagalog
"Filipino is the official language"
WTH? Is it Tagalog, Kapampangan, Visayas, etc?
I'm sure it's Tagalog because it is widely spoken and is the language most understood in all the regions of the Philippines.
However, I don't understand why they call it "Filipino"
when Filipino is nationality x_X
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tagalog is a dialect like kapampangan, ilokano or cebuano.
filipino is the official language as designated by some laws. at the same time, it refer to the people of the philippines.
according to debates long time ago, tagalog (which is really the same as filipino the language) cannot be the official language because the other regions would be jealous.
Tagalog is the common language used but there are variations of dialects all over the Philippiones such as Bisayan used in the south.
Its called Tagalog and its is a mixture of spanish and asian languages.
"Filipino is the national and an official language of the Philippines as designated in the 1987 Philippine Constitution. It is an Austronesian language that is the de facto standardized version of Tagalog. Sometimes the language is incorrectly used as the generic name for all the languages of the Philippines which, in turn, would be incorrectly termed as "dialects".
The Commission on the Filipino Language, the regulating body of Filipino, envisions a process of popularizing regional dialect usage derived from regional languages, as the foundation of standardizing and intellectualizing a language, based on a lingua franca.
In 1959, the language became known as Pilipino to dissociate it from the Tagalog ethnic group. Later, the 1973 Constitution provided for a separate national language to replace Pilipino, a language which it named Filipino. The pertinent article, though, Article XV, Section 3(2), mentions neither Tagalog nor Pilipino as the basis for Filipino, instead calling on the National Assembly to take steps towards the development and formal adoption of a common national language to be known as Filipino."
Tagalog – dialect
F/Pilipino – Language / Nationality
You mix up some spanglish, taglish, bisaya, ilocano, waray, sprinkle in some english words, stir it all up and you have FILIPINO language. Next question……
Tagalog is one of the dialects of Philippines. Yet it is the official language. And in general, Tagalog is officially called FILIPINO. Refers to the language and not to the people. However, the people there also called Filipino. Nothing’s confusing with it.
It’s like this. Filipino/Tagalog. They are synonymous.
it’s called filipino because not everyone can speak tagalog in philippines and its unfair if tagalog is our national language since there are so many dialects in our counrty
so to be fair, we called it filipino
Filipino Language is the National Language of the Philippines.
Tagalog, Kapampangan, Hiligaynon, Chabakano, Waray, and others are known as DIALECTS only.
But Filipino is nearest to Tagalog dialect.
Well you already have some of the answers posted. Bottom line with 171 languages and dialects spoken in the Philippines, we have to somehow met in the middle that way we can understand each other.
Since Tagalog was in the trade and financial capital, Manila. It was adopted as the Philippine Language. Plus is easier to learn, trust me.
-Case and point:
I’m married to a Zamboanguena (Chavacana), and I’m a Bisaya/Cebuano. We cannot understand each other when we speak our language. So, we speak English and Filipino.
The problem is why choose Tagalog with 14million while Cebuano is at 20million. I’ll leave that to you mga kababayan.
Check the source.
filipino is nationality tagalog is the language. tagalog is language that is mixed some malay, a little bit of chinese (mainly food), and a lot of spanish. well some dumb foreigners say it is a language, but the true thing is that tagalog is a language of filipinos, filipino is not the language of filipinos, it is the nationality.
Its mostly tagalog, and I think it was President Quezon which adopted it as the national language. Hence, called Filipino. It is not the dialect most widely spoken, its Cebuano.
The Language Provision of the 1987 Philippine Constitution
Article XIV Section 6: (Pasimio, 1991:409)
The national language of the Philippines is Filipino. As it evolves, it shall be further developed and enriched on the basis of existing Philippine and other languages.
Apparently, the Constitution still had not exactly defined the Filipino which is now the national language of the country. However, the language committee of the Constitutional commission, during one of their sessions (September 10, 1986), made this definition:
“…the nucleus of the Filipino will be Pilipino with the mixture of words from other dialects and said Filipino language has already been existing as lingua franca… Filipino is the expansion of Pilipino and it is the lingua franca that has naturally evolved throughout the country, based on Tagalog and other Philippine languages and foreign languages.”
So what is Filipino? It is the Philippine language whose nucleus is Tagalog, characterized by massive borrowings of lexical items from Philippine and non-Philippine languages. It is different from Tagalog in that it is permeable to foreign words and from Taglish in that it follows the structure of Tagalog, its nucleus. Taglish, according to SWP and Linguistic Society of the Philippines, is merely a “variation” of (spoken) Filipino. [seb/2003]
Tagalog
To add to all the answers. Tagalog came from the word "Taga Ilog" or from the river, these refers to the pre-hispanic settlers along the Pasig River, where there are many waterlily known as Nilad, where the name Maynila or Manila came from, Maynila means there are waterlilies.
The term Filipino with "F" refers to language, while Pilipino with "P" refers to people. So when you say " Ang Pilipino ay marunong magsalita ng Filipino." It means the Filipino (english spelling for Pilipino referring people) knows how to speak filipino (the language).
These is just a simple case of double meaning like
Italian, Arabic, English, Chinese and the likes. Both can represent a race or language depending on the context of the sentence.