Why did Tagalog become the national language of the Philippines?
Here’s your SHORT and CORRECT answer! Tagalog became the national language simply because President Manuel Quezon on 1935 simply chose it as the National Language – he thought that it would be right because more Filipinos are able to speak it either as a first or second language than any other Philippine language and because it was Manila (and President Quezon’s) native language. Also, it is the language of the Philippine Revolution. The “New” National Language is not Tagalog anymore, but Filipino. Filipino is an modern language which is a mixture of Tagalog, Visayan, Ilocano, Spanish, Chinese, English, Arabic, Malay, and Persian.
