What is the main difference between the Tagalog language and Filipino language?

[XIZOR]

Tagalog is a language since it have different structure from other Malayo-Polynesian language such as Bahasa, Cebuano, Tausug, Ilokano, Bicol, etc... Will you call Filipino a Tagalog dialect? Or is it the other way around? Since they got the same structure but sometimes use a different set of intonations and vocabulary. ------

[pinkbullet]

tagalog- national language (all over philippines understand and can speak it )FILIPINO language:bisayacebuanochavacanotausugmuslim (maranaw)warayilonggoetc.....but mostly in luzon area we used Tag-lish or tagalog english ------

[0330em/jd]

tagalog dialect is the national laguage of the pilipino'sfilipino language compose of many languages.like bisaya.bicol etc.tagalog is the dialect of the capital of the philippines. ------

[joe]

Magandang Gabi,Tagalog is a Filipino Dialect. It is spoken by most Filipinos. I don't much about the structure. I learned it from some Filipino Nuns in Rhode Island.Paallam,Joe ------

[Irene F]

Filipino is the national language of the Phillippines, and is based on Tagalog. Filipino is supposed to be"Tagalog plus", incorporating some Western and Spanish words.Originally, Tagalog was a language spoken in the Manila area. Other languages were spoken in other areas, but the use of Tagalog spread over the years, making it more acceptable as a basis for the national language.Filipino and Tagalog do not fit the model of a single language that has several dialects--versions of the language spoken by different groups. However, in the sense that Filipino is agreed to be the standard language (taught in school, etc.) then you could call Tagalog a dialect.Remember,"A language is a dialect with an army and a navy." ------

[datuh]

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.