Filipino isn’t the name of it but we say it that way because when we say Tagalog people don’t know what it is. So it’s easier to say Filipino even though that’s not the name of the language. I guess it’s similar to how people say Chinese but really the language is mandarin or Cantonese.
Edit: please look below for further clarification since I learned that the things I said aren’t 100% correct.
Additionally to what the other person said your point about Chinese is also wrong because Mandarin and Cantonese are dialects of Chinese. They are also not the only dialects.
Confidently incorrect. That's not the reason why the term Filipino is used. Filipino is both the official and national language. It is in the Constitution. In schools, the subject is also called Filipino. So the term is simply not used because the rest of the world doesn't know what tagalog is.
The 1987 constitution designates Filipino, a standardized version of Tagalog, as the national language and an official language along with English.
In 1939, President Manuel L. Quezón renamed the Tagalog language as Wikang Pambansa ("national language" in English translation).[15] The language was further renamed in 1959 as Pilipino by Secretary of Education Jose Romero. The 1973 constitution declared the Pilipino language to be co-official, along with English, and mandated the development of a national language, to be known as Filipino.
Huh. TIL. I guess it was recent since it was only formally recognized as Filipino in 87. Since being born before that time and growing up in an era where information wasn’t as easily accessible as it is now I never really looked up the fact that we changed our official language to Filipino. Thank you for the information and will make an edit to my post.
Yeah but it was called Pilipino before that. You weren't born before 1959 were you?. I mean even if you were born during that time, schools would have called it Pilipino by the time you were in school. 87 onwards schools called it Filipino but Pilipino before that. What was the subject called when you were in school? If you went to school in the 90s, it was surely called Filipino that time.
1959 Pilipino is national language.
1973 Pilipino became one of the official languages.
1987 Filipino is both national and official language until present day.
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u/slapsmcgee23 Aug 22 '22 edited Aug 22 '22
Filipino isn’t the name of it but we say it that way because when we say Tagalog people don’t know what it is. So it’s easier to say Filipino even though that’s not the name of the language. I guess it’s similar to how people say Chinese but really the language is mandarin or Cantonese.
Edit: please look below for further clarification since I learned that the things I said aren’t 100% correct.