Tagalog Language

Austronesian language of the Philippines with 33 million native speakers; the basis of the national language Filipino, in print since 1593.

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Tagalog has 33 million first-language speakers (2023) and about 54 million second-language speakers (2020).
In 1937 President Quezon proclaimed Tagalog the basis for the evolution of the Philippine national language.
Its first complete book, the Doctrina Christiana printed in 1593, appeared in Baybayin and an early Latin orthography.