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Filipino language


Name	Filipino
States	Philippines
Speakers	First language: 25 million Second language: over 60 million Overall: 90 million
Familycolor	Austronesian
Fam2	Malayo-Polynesian
Fam3	Central Philippine
Fam4	Tagalog
Script	Filipino alphabet (Latin script)
Nation	Philippines
Agency	Commission on the Filipino Language (Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino)
Iso1	tl
Iso2	fil
Iso3	fil

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Filipino is a prestige register of the Tagalog language and the name under which Tagalog is designated the national language and one of two official languages of the Philippines, the other being English. Tagalog is the first language of a third of the population of the Philippines. It is centered around Manila but is known almost universally throughout the country.

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