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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tagalog

Tagalog \Ta*ga"log\, n.

  1. (Ethnol.) Any member of a certain tribe which is one of the leading and most civilized of those native of the Philippine Islands.

  2. The language of the Tagalogs. It belongs to the Malay family of languages and is one of the most highly developed members of the family.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Tagalog

people living near Manila in the Philippines, also their language, 1704, from Tagalog taga "native to" + ilog "river."

Wikipedia
Tagalog

Tagalog may refer to:

  • Tagalog language, a language spoken in the Philippines
  • Tagalog people, a major ethnic group in the Philippines
  • Filipino language, the standard form of Tagalog that serves as an official language of the Philippines
Tagalog (Unicode block)

Tagalog is a Unicode block containing characters of the pre-Spanish Philippine Baybayin script used for writing the Tagalog language.

Usage examples of "tagalog".

Smith had picked up a wonderful smattering of the Spanish and Tagalog languages for a woman who had lived the life she had before she came to the East.

Some of the prisoners knew white men that had come among the Tagalog natives, but no one knew a man who answered to this description.

The man with the mike spoke in what Moon guessed must be Tagalog and then repeated at least some of it in heavily accented English.

And then some muttering in Dutch, or German, or Tagalog, and Moon was asleep again.

Lee, speaking in a language that might have been Tagalog or Chinese or almost anything but English.

They chatted in Spanish, French, Creole, Russian, Tagalog, Hawaiian, and for my benefit, English.

Paul returned then from the cafeteria to find them like this, Karen crying, Maria hushing Karen with calming words in Tagalog, the language of her childhood.

Not just the usual European ones, but such off-beats as Tagalog, Chinese and Arabic, and those books were well used.

Among the intercept operators on board was at least one qualified in Tagalog, the language of the Philippines.

He could speak Spanish and French, Tagalog, Russian, and four dialects of Chinese.

Ghattas, a lab tech whose first language was Tagalog, had made a comment to one of his female co-workers that she had interpreted as sexual harassment.

Then there had come the report of a gun, and then an attack, with scores of shouting Tagalogs swarming down the sides of the ravine.

The Tagalogs could not face the fire with which the Americans met them.

Occasionally all the other tribes combined will amount to enough to force the Tagalogs and the Visayans to hang together to keep the others out.

They alternately tickled and battered the senses not only in English, Hopi, Navaho, and Zuni, but also in Japanese, Mandarin, Thai, Bahasa Indonesia, Malay, Tagalog, and the inescapable Spanish of the South American community.