Tagalog
Americannoun
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Tagalogs,
plural
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Tagalog
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a member of a Malayan people native to Luzon, in the Philippines.
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the principal language of the Philippines, an Indonesian language of the Austronesian family.
noun
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a member of a people of the Philippines, living chiefly in the region around Manila
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the language of this people, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian family: the official language of the Philippines
adjective
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Eala, who grew up in Metro Manila and later graduated from the Rafa Nadal Academy in 2023, conducts at least part of every on-court interview in Tagalog.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Written in her native Tagalog, it allows her to "carry parts of my culture with me on court".
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
Step off the 7 train, and languages quickly shift from Nepali and Bengali to Spanish and Tagalog as you walk between blocks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
"Ate Bianca, Jiggly, I hope you know that you are loved," said the franchise's breakout star, Marina Summers, using a term of endearmeant in Tagalog.
From BBC ● Apr. 28, 2025
He yelled in a language I later found out was Tagalog, and the older woman rushed into the hallway.
From "The Marrow Thieves" by Cherie Dimaline
Spain first occupied the place in 1855 and garrisoned it with several hundred Hokanos and Tagalogs.
From The Head Hunters of Northern Luzon by Cornélis de Witt Willcox
Tagalog: The Tagalogs are a branch of the Malay family which, in former times, dominated from Madagascar to the ends of the Pacific.
From The Katipunan or The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune by Francis St. Clair
There is also a dwarf variety of the palm, which rarely exceeds 3 meters in height, and is known to the Tagalogs as “Adiavan.”
From The Cocoanut With reference to its products and cultivation in the Philippines by William S. (Scrugham) Lyon
Perhaps it is the closer contact with the Spanish that has given the Tagalogs their great progress.
From Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania by Jewett Castello Gilson
The schoolhouses had been used as barracks by the Tagalogs.
From A Woman's Impression of the Philippines by Mary Helen Fee
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