Tagalog

[ tah-gah-lawg, tuh- ]

/ tɑˈgɑ lɔg, tə- /

a member of a Malayan people native to Luzon, in the Philippines.

the principal language of the Philippines, an Indonesian language of the Austronesian family.

Example sentences from the Web for tagalog

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

Gary Shteyngart: How I Write |Noah Charney |December 26, 2012 |DAILY BEAST
This Pampango variant, although it is a little more specific than the Tagalog, is identical with our second version.

Filipino Popular Tales |Dean S. Fansler
Tandang: A title of respect for an old man: from the Tagalog term for “old.”

The Reign of Greed |Jose Rizal
They speak corrupt Tagalog, though careful study may reveal traces of an original tongue.

Negritos of Zambales |William Allan Reed

Emilio Aguinaldo was born in 1870, of Chinese and Tagalog parentage.

Poems of American History |Various
In the same journal (29 : 226 f.) I have given synopses of two Tagalog metrical romances which open with the Cinderella setting.

Filipino Popular Tales |Dean S. Fansler

Tagalog

/ (təˈɡɑːlɒɡ) /

plural -logs or -log a member of a people of the Philippines, living chiefly in the region around Manila

the language of this people, belonging to the Malayo-Polynesian family: the official language of the Philippines

of or relating to this people or their language