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  Taal

  noun

  Usually the Taal Afrikaans.
• taal
  taal

  noun

  language: usually, by implication, Afrikaans

Taal

¹ American  

[tahl] / tɑl /

noun

1. Usually the Taal Afrikaans.

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Taal ² American  

[tah-ahl] / tɑˈɑl /

noun

1. an active volcano in the Philippines, on SW Luzon, on an island in Taal Lake: eruptions 1749, 1873, 1911. 1,050 feet (320 meters).

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Taal ¹ British  

/ tɑːˈɑːl /

noun

1. an active volcano in the Philippines, on S Luzon on an island in the centre of Lake Taal . Height: 300 m (984 ft). Area of lake: 243 sq km (94 sq miles)

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taal ² British  

/ tɑːl /

noun

1. language: usually, by implication, Afrikaans

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Etymology

Origin of Taal

First recorded in 1895–1900; from Afrikaans, from Dutch taal “language, speech”; cognate with tale

Example Sentences

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Mr Taal was suspended twice by Cornell, an Ivy League school in upstate New York, due to protest activities.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025

Taal told Slate he only spent five to 10 minutes inside the event, but as he was leaving, university police eyed him.

From Slate ● Oct. 18, 2024

Griffin connected with Gretchen Roffler, a biologist with Alaska Department of Fish and Game, who introduced Griffin to Taal Levi, a professor at Oregon State and Dymit's advisor.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 31, 2023

Audience members at the performance of "Dop is my Taal" said the work had articulated uncomfortable truths and given expression to a part of South African society that sometimes feels marginalised.

From Reuters ● Oct. 26, 2023

"Umph—what do you think the Taal people would do to us?"

From Caybigan by Hopper, James

For his ears had caught the challenge of their own vedette on the ridge, and the answer thereto in the taal.

From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Mitford, Bertram

But I thought you might have picked up a few words—some fellows show a surprising facility in acquiring the taal.

From The Shadow of the Past by Young, F.E. Mills

He began in the taal, with the thick guttural accent that you get in German South West.

From Greenmantle by Buchan, John

Nederduitsche taal, Dutch Chinese, for the use of interpreters.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

And one who is very proud to make the acquaintance of so famous and gifted a man as yourself,” replied Colvin, who spoke the taal very fairly well.

From Aletta A Tale of the Boer Invasion by Mitford, Bertram