Tagalog people

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

Tagalog people

Katagalugan Lahing Tagalog
A maginoo (nobility) couple, both wearing blue-colored clothing articles (blue being the distinctive color of their class), c. 16th century.
Total population
28,273,666 (2020 census)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Philippines (Metro Manila, Calabarzon, Central Luzon, Mimaropa)
Languages
Tagalog (Filipino), English
Religion
Predominantly Christianity (mostly Catholic), minority Islam, Buddhism, Anitism (Tagalog religion)
Related ethnic groups
Other Filipino ethnic groups, other Austronesian peoples

Speakers

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.

References

1. "Ethnicity in the Philippines (2020 Census of Population and Housing)". Philippine Statistics Authority. Archived from the original on July 20, 2023. Retrieved July 4, 2023.