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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 is at least the second international student to opt to leave the US after being targeted for removal by the US Department of Homeland Security.

From BBC ● Mar. 31, 2025

Taal immediately filed an appeal to his suspension, while a letter circulated that demanded Taal be reinstated to the school, and Cornell’s graduate student union protested his suspension.

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

Authorities suspended Friday classes in dozens of towns and cities Cavite, Laguna, and Batangas provinces adjacent to Taal volcano, and in five cities in the capital region.

From Reuters ● Sep. 22, 2023

Eruption of the Taal volcano, and earthquake in Manila.

From The Inhabitants of the Philippines by Frederic H. Sawyer

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

From Greenmantle by John Buchan

During 1906 he gave offence to the extreme section of the Bond by some criticisms of the taal and his use of English in public speeches.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

The messenger who delivers this has no knowledge of the taal.

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

Matheson replied to this greeting in English, explaining, apologetically that always he had been a fool at languages, and that he did not speak the taal.

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

By the President's side, and on his right hand, sat W——, who was to interpret my barbarous English into the elegant taal.

From A Tramp's Notebook by Morley Roberts