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Definition of Tagalog
1. Noun. A member of a people native to the Philippines chiefly inhabiting central Luzon around and including Manila.
2. Noun. The language of the Tagalog on which Filipino is based.
Definition of Tagalog
1. n. Any member of a certain tribe which is one of the leading and most civilized of those native of the Philippine Islands.
Definition of Tagalog
1. Proper noun. A language spoken in the Philippines, in particular, Metro Manila and its surrounding provinces such as Bulacan, Laguna, Cavite, Batangas, Bataan, Rizal, Marinduque, Mindoro, and Quezon. ¹
2. Noun. A member of the second largest Filipino ethnic group. ¹
3. Adjective. Of or relating to the Tagalogs. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tagalog
Literary usage of Tagalog
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Philippine Islands: A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social by John Foreman (1899)
"The domesticated Tagalog natives of the North have made greater progress in ...
The Tagalog differs vastly from his southern brother in his true nature, ..."
2. The Spanish-American War by Russell Alexander Alger (1901)
"CHAPTER XXI THE Tagalog REBELLION WAR in the Philippines had begun. ... The Tagalog
confederates of Aguinaldo in Manila are said to have numbered 10000, ..."
3. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York Public Library (1909)
"MacKinlay (William Egbert W.) A handbook and grammar of the Tagalog language.
... Proverbs, maximes et conseils traduits du Tagalog (langue principale des ..."
4. The Philippine Islands: A Political, Geographical, Ethnographical, Social by John Foreman (1899)
"THE Tagalog REBELLION OF 1896-98. FIRST PERIOD. AFTER the Napoleonic wars in
Spain, the " Junta Suprema Central del Reino " convened the famous " Cortes de ..."
5. Philippine Folk Tales by Cook Cole, Mabel Cook Cole (1916)
"THE CREATION STORY Tagalog "ITT'HEN the world first began there was no land, but
only the sea and the sky, and between them was a kite.1 One day the bird ..."
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