Jump to content

Tagalog people

From Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Tagalog people (Tagalog: "mga Tagalog") are the largest single ethnic, linguistic and cultural group and community in the Philippines. An Austronesian peoples, the Tagalog people are local to the Metro Manila and Calabarzon regions of southern Luzon, and include the majority of people in the provinces of Bulacan, Bataan, Nueva Ecija and Aurora in Central Luzon region and in the islands of Marinduque and Oriental Mindoro/Occidental Mindoro in Mimaropa regions.

They mainly use and speak the Tagalog language as their native and first language, all before they learn the English language through international and national mass media and through education in schools, and the Filipino language but through national mass media, education in schools and through communicating with other Filipinos in the Philippines that are not Tagalog people and who also learned the Filipino as a second language through national mass media, education in schools and through communicating with other Filipinos in the Philippines who also learned the same language.