Filipino language

Filipino is "in practice" but not "according to the law" a form of the Tagalog language or the Metro Manila dialect ofTagalog. It is the national language of the Philippines, and one of the two official languages of the Philippines, with English being the other.^[1] About a third of the people in the Philippines speak Tagalog as a first language, and more people speak it as a second language, especially the Filipino language.

Young man speak Filipino

Filipino
Standard dialect of Tagalog
Native to	Philippines
Region	All regions of the Philippines, especially in Metro Manila, the National Capital Region (of the Philippines), and in all other urban centers of the Philippines
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Central Philippine Tagalog Filipino
Writing system	Filipino alphabet (Latin script)
Official status
Official language in	Philippines
Recognised minority language in	Thailand  Malaysia  Indonesia  Myanmar  Cambodia  United States
Regulated by	Commission on the Filipino Language (Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino)
Language codes
ISO 639-2	fil
ISO 639-3	fil

Filipino is "in practice" but not "according to the law" used as the formal, official, and/or academic name of the Tagalog language, but sometimes, it even means the same thing, which makes Tagalog and Filipino different languages.

It's commonly called Tagalog, the Tagalog language or the Tagalog language in the Philippines and among most Filipinos, just differentiate it from the other languages of the Philippines.

Filipino is a language that has undergone evolution and development from the Pilipino language since 1987, and it has more influences from the other languages of the Philippines and from foreign languages than the core Tagalog language.

The Pilipino language has been since 1959 the final official name of the former or previous official and national language of the Philippines.