Category
Major WikaRelated Terms
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Language Family
Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian (standardized form of Tagalog)
In Context
Tagalog was selected as the basis for a national language in 1937, renamed Wikang Pambansa, then Pilipino in 1959, and finally Filipino under the 1973 and 1987 constitutions. It functions as the country's primary lingua franca across all 17 regions and is used in government, broadcast media, and everyday formal speech, with the Commission on the Filipino Language incorporating vocabulary from other Philippine languages into its standardized dictionaries over time.
Primary Regions
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Related Terms in Major Wika
View All →This definition is part of the azifind.com Wika section, informed by the Philippine Statistics Authority 2020 Census of Population and Housing, Ethnologue, and the Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino. View all Wika →