Since 1987, Tagalog is written using the Modern Philippine Alphabet however, Abakada is still widely used. Santos in 1940 was adopted by the Institute of National Language (Surian ng Wikang Pambansa). The Abakada Alphabet which contains 20 letters and was created by Lope K.
It was used during the Spanish colonization of the Philippines until the 19th century. Baybayin is an ancient Philippine Script that was recorded in the 16th century. Tagalog or Filipino is the standard language of more than 100,000,000 people and the first Language of 28,000,000 people in the Philippines.
