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What is your name? (informal) = Anong pangalan mo?.Here are some common Tagalog words and phrases to get your started:

Filipino is the standardized version of the Tagalog adapted from dialects spoken around Manilla and injected with a heavy dose of Spanish and English vocabulary. While the language can sometimes be referred to as Filipino, it is not the same language. It’s important though to differentiate Tagalog from Filipino. The language is part of the Austronesian language family and is influenced not only by Spanish and English, but also Chinese, Malay, Arabic, and Persian.

Tagalog can be incredibly approachable for the average learner simply because it adapts quite a bit of vocabulary from both English and Spanish. According to research, it is the fifth most commonly spoken non-English language in American households, ranking just behind Spanish, French, Chinese, and Hindi. In the United States, more than 1.6 million people speak Tagalog, making it one of the most widely spoken languages besides English. There are twenty-two million speakers of Tagalog in the Philippines-with large populations who speak the language in Canada, Guam, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and the United Kingdom. More than 50 million Filipinos speak Tagalog as a first or second language, and the standardized form of Tagalog, called Filipino, is the national language of the Philippines. If learning Tagalog isn’t on your radar as one of the most helpful languages to speak, it should be.