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Tagalog (Filipinos)

Name: Tagalog (Filipinos): census figures, languages and lineage
Creator: Genetik
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Тагалы (филиппинцы)

language area per Glottologcensus counts

28,374,485

Philippines, census 2020 (national and/or ethnic group, UN)

Austronesian

language family (Glottolog)

In brief

The largest documented number lives in Philippines: 28,374,485 people in the 2020 census.

Main language: Tagalog. Glottolog classifies it in the Austronesian family.

Where they live: census figures

Each figure comes from the country's official census. Censuses define belonging differently (self-identification, citizenship, mother tongue, ancestry); the type is given on each row.

Philippines2020 · national and/or ethnic group, UN · «Tagalog» · [1]

28,374,485

Languages and their lineage

Tagalog

Austronesianaust1307
Malayo-Polynesianmala1545
Greater Central Philippinegrea1284
Central Philippinecent2246
Tagalogictaga1280
Tagalog-Filipinotaga1269
Tagalogtaga1270

Filipino

Austronesianaust1307
Malayo-Polynesianmala1545
Greater Central Philippinegrea1284
Central Philippinecent2246
Tagalogictaga1280
Tagalog-Filipinotaga1269
Filipinofili1244

People-to-language links: Wikidata (properties P103 and P2936), checked against ISO 639-3 codes. Language classification: Glottolog 5.3.

Peoples of the same language family

Javanese Sundanese Malays Banjar Betawi people Minangkabau Chams Chamorro people Samoans Carolinian people

Sources

United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD). Demographic Yearbook, table 26: Population by national and/or ethnic group. Philippines, Census - de jure - complete tabulation, Final figure, complete. https://data.un.org/Data.aspx?d=POP&f=tableCode%3a26%3bsexCode%3a0%3bareaCode%3a0%3bcountr…
Hammarström H., Forkel R., Haspelmath M., Bank S. (2026). Glottolog 5.3. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. glottolog.org (CC BY 4.0)