Tagalog

American  

[tah-gah-lawg, tuh-] / tɑˈgɑ lɔg, tə- /

noun

• Tagalogs,
  plural
• Tagalog
  plural

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.

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Tagalog British  

/ təˈɡɑːlɒɡ /

noun

1. 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

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adjective

1. of or relating to this people or their language

Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Tagalog
  plural
• Tagalogs
  plural

Example Sentences

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Tagalog Tagalogs

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

The exercise, whose name translates as “shoulder-to-shoulder” from the local Tagalog language, has also become the prime testing ground for expanded cooperation between America’s allies in the Pacific.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

Voters can choose to get election information in English, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Tagalog, Thai or Vietnamese by calling the phone numbers listed here or by using these online options to get help.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 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

The decree of August 9 is taken from the “Cedulario Indico” in the Archivo Historico Nacional, Madrid; and Plasencia's accounts of the Tagalogs, from Santa Inés's Crónica, ii, pp.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 07 of 55 1588-1591 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century by James Alexander Robertson

Many Americans pitied the sad condition of the Tagalogs, but all felt that as matters were now situated the supremacy of the United States throughout the Philippines must be maintained.

From The Campaign of the Jungle or, Under Lawton through Luzon by Edward Stratemeyer

As a result of this the society gained much credit and power, and undermined the forces which were in existence, especially the native regiments of Tagalogs.

From The Katipunan or The Rise and Fall of the Filipino Commune by Francis St. Clair

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