Languages by Speaker Count & Type [OC]

It's better if they used Tagalog instead, or used a term like "Filipino/Tagalog". Filipino to Tagalog is pretty much interchangable irl. 'Filipino' is just the urban Metro Manila register of Tagalog that 'promises' future grammatical, lexical, and phonological inclusion from other Philippine languages (and it is rapidly as Metro Manila is quite a cosmopolitan place), but de facto is just Metro Manila Tagalog. The way 'Filipino' tends to be used sees it ending up as Taglish anyway (Tagalog-English code switching), because of the high reliance on English loanwords.

I believe Tagalog has 25 million native speakers, and Tagalog (Filipino) has around 45 million L2 who use it everyday alongside English and their native languages. It's not as clear cut as the graph supposes. 'Filipino' was meant to neutralize the idea of Metro Manila's English-heavy, creolized, somewhat gutteral (intervolic k is realized as 'kh' (as in the Arabic kh) sounds) register of spoken Tagalog, especially among the Visayan ethnic group, with their Visayan languages used in the Visayas and the places they settled relatively recently in Mindanao (to the detriment of native Mindanaons, whose native languages are now dwindling in use). In many cases, Visayans refuse to contemplate even using 'Tagalog', but even the term 'Filipino' is highly nuanced, and seems like a euphemism for 'Metro Manileño Tagalog' among them..

Filipinos within the country continue to pull the idealist line, Filipinos (whether by citizenry or ancestry) outside the country prefer to call a spade a spade, and refer to the language they speak as a Lingua Franca or native tongue as 'Tagalog' and not 'Filipino'.

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