Tagalog

[ tah-gah-lawg, tuh- ]

noun

, plural Ta·ga·logs, (especially collectively) Ta·ga·log

1. a member of a Malayan people native to Luzon, in the Philippines.
2. the principal language of the Philippines, an Indonesian language of the Austronesian family.

Tagalog

/ təˈɡɑːlɒɡ /

noun

1. -logs-log a member of a people of the Philippines, living chiefly in the region around Manila
2. the language of this people, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian family: the official language of the Philippines

adjective

1. of or relating to this people or their language

Example Sentences

Too many of the literary works I come across these days are in Tagalog.

From The Daily Beast

The word itself means “highlanders,” golot being a Tagalog word for “mountain,” and I a prefix meaning “people of.”

From Project Gutenberg

The Visayas, for example, would refuse sooner or later to acknowledge the Tagalog supremacy of Luzon.

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The first four of these are known as Tagalog provinces; the fifth is inhabited by Ilocanos and Pampangans.

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I have also seen it used many times in Manila by Tagalog who were caught out in a storm without an umbrella.

From Project Gutenberg

Thence the application of the word expanded and it now corresponds to the Tagalog lam and the Cebu-Bisya s-dan.

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