Tagalog is an
Austronesian language spoken as a first language by a quarter of the population of the
Philippines and as a second language by the majority. Its standardized form, officially named
Filipino, is the
national language and one of two
official languages of the Philippines, the other being
English. It is related to other
Philippine languages, such as the
Bikol languages,
Ilokano, the
Visayan languages, and
Kapampangan, and more distantly to other Austronesian languages, such as the
Formosan languages,
Indonesian,
Hawaiian, and
Malagasy.