Editing Tagalog language (section)

===Official status===
{{Main|Filipino language}}
[[File:Diariong Tagalog.jpg|thumb|right|''[[Diariong Tagalog]]'' (Tagalog Newspaper), the first bilingual newspaper in the Philippines founded in 1882 written in both Tagalog and [[Spanish language|Spanish]].]]
Tagalog was declared the official language by the first revolutionary constitution in the Philippines, the [[wikisource:Provisional Constitution of the Philippines (1897)#ARTICLE VIII: OFFICIAL LANGUAGE|Constitution of Biak-na-Bato]] in 1897.<ref>{{Citation |title=1897 Constitution of Biak-na-Bato, Article VIII |date=November 1897 |url=https://thecorpusjuris.com/constitutions/1897-constitution.php |mode=cs1 |via=The Corpus Juris |access-date=April 13, 2022 |archive-date=July 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220717035029/https://thecorpusjuris.com/constitutions/1897-constitution.php |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1935, the Philippine constitution designated English and Spanish as official languages, but mandated the development and adoption of a common national language based on one of the existing native languages.<ref>{{Citation |title=1935 Philippine Constitution (amended), Article XIV, Section 3 |work=Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines |url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/constitutions/1935-constitution-ammended/ |mode=cs1 |via=Official Gazette |access-date=April 13, 2022 |archive-date=June 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200601164141/https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/constitutions/1935-constitution-ammended// |url-status=live }}</ref> After study and deliberation, the National Language Institute, a committee composed of seven members who represented various regions in the Philippines, chose Tagalog as the basis for the evolution and adoption of the national language of the Philippines.<ref name="MLQspeech">{{Cite speech |last=Quezon |first=Manuel L. |author-link=Manuel L. Quezon |location=Malacañan Palace, Manila |date=December 30, 1937 |title=Speech of His Excellency Manuel L. Quezon President of the Philippines on Filipino National Language |url=http://www.quezon.ph/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/mlq-speech-national-language-1.pdf |via=quezon.ph |access-date=March 26, 2010 |archive-date=February 25, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225085738/http://www.quezon.ph/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/mlq-speech-national-language-1.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Gonzalez">{{Cite journal |last=Gonzalez |first=Andrew |date=1998 |title=The Language Planning Situation in the Philippines |url=http://www.multilingual-matters.net/jmmd/019/0487/jmmd0190487.pdf |journal=Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development |volume=19 |issue=5, 6 |pages=487–488 |doi=10.1080/01434639808666365 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060322083304/http://www.multilingual-matters.net/jmmd/019/0487/jmmd0190487.pdf |archive-date=March 22, 2006 }}</ref> President [[Manuel L. Quezon]] then, on December 30, 1937, proclaimed the selection of the Tagalog language to be used as the basis for the evolution and adoption of the national language of the Philippines.<ref name=MLQspeech /> In 1939, President Quezon renamed the proposed Tagalog-based national language as ''Wikang Pambansâ'' (national language).<ref name=Gonzalez/> Quezon himself was born and raised in [[Baler, Aurora]], which is a native Tagalog-speaking area. Under the Japanese puppet government during [[World War II]], Tagalog as a national language was strongly promoted; the 1943 Constitution specifying: "The government shall take steps toward the development and propagation of Tagalog as the national language."

In 1959, the language was further renamed as "Pilipino".<ref name=Gonzalez/> Along with English, the national language has had official status under the 1973 constitution (as "Pilipino")<ref>{{Citation |title=1973 Philippine Constitution, Article XV, Sections 2–3 |url=https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/constitutions/1973-constitution-of-the-republic-of-the-philippines-2/ |mode=cs1 |via=Official Gazette |access-date=April 13, 2022 |archive-date=June 25, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170625191553/https://www.officialgazette.gov.ph/constitutions/1973-constitution-of-the-republic-of-the-philippines-2/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and the present 1987 constitution (as Filipino).