Tagalog is an Asian language of the Austronesian family. With over 24 million native speakers, Tagalog is spoken as a first language by a third of the population of the Philippines, and as a second language by most of the rest. Its standardized form, commonly called Filipino, is the national language and one of two official languages of the Philippines. It is related to other Philippine languages such as Ilokano, Bisayan, and Kapampangan. Tagalog was declared the official language by the first constitution in the Philippines, the Constitution of Biak-na-Bato in 1897. In 1935, the Philippine constitution designated English and Spanish as official languages, but mandated the development and adoption of a common national language based on one of the existing native languages. Thus, some terms in Tagalog are of Spanish or English origin.

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