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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


adjective

  1. of or relating to this people or their language
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

After Spanish, Tagalog is the second-most spoken non-English language in the county.

There are 43 contact tracers working for San Diego County or county contractors who speak Tagalog, according to county spokeswoman Sarah Sweeney.

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

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

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

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

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

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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