Tagalog is not a dialect but a language. it is spoken in Metro Manila, Bulacan, Rizal, Quezon, Cavite, Batangas, Mindoro, Palawan, some parts of Nueva Ecija. As for the Filipino language, it depends on what you're pertaining to, the national language that the constitution called Filipino or the various Filipino languages there is in the Philippines. for me, that's the confusion that calling the national language as Filipino made. because there is actually more than a hundred languages in the Philippines. but for the differences of Tagalog and Filipino, there is none, on the point of view of linguistics. the two has basically the same grammar and orthography. the lingua franca that they call Filipino today is actually just the same as the Tagalog that was originally declared as national language, only with the developments it has undergone through continuous usage and not because of the change of name done to it.
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