tagalog
ટાગાલોગ
definition
noun
Recruiting efforts after 1909 centered on the Visayan Islands, Cebu in particular, and Luzon's Tagalogs .
a member of a people originally of central Luzon in the Philippine Islands.
Discounting English, he's fluent in French, Spanish, Chinese and Tagalog , a Filipino language.
the Austronesian language of the Tagalog. Its vocabulary has been much influenced by Spanish and English, and it is the basis of a standardized national language of the Philippines (Filipino).
adjective
I couldn't think of the Tagalog word for ‘brave’.
relating to the Tagalog or their language.
example
The 'Tagalog' text of the poem revisits the Balangiga incident.
And since I'm from the Philippines, I speak 'Tagalog' .
Recruiting efforts after 1909 centered on the Visayan Islands, Cebu in particular, and Luzon's 'Tagalogs' .
It was a joy to sit amid thirty or so girls and give a devotional talk as two of the housemothers translated my English into 'Tagalog' .
The major ethnolinguistic groups that have shaped politics in the Philippines were the 'Tagalogs' , Ilocanos, and Pampangans of Luzon, the Cebuanos of the Visayas, and the Muslim Maranaos and Tausugs of Mindanao.
I couldn't think of the 'Tagalog' word for ‘brave’.
While the common language is 'Tagalog' , almost everyone has a good grasp of English.
It's not Canadians’ fault he lapsed into his native 'Tagalog' for a while there at the end.
At the time of Philippine independence, about 25 percent of Filipinos spoke 'Tagalog' , the language of central Luzon.
Men were recruited from as far away as Albay in the Bicol region and even Panay in the Visayas though the majority of workers were 'Tagalogs' , Pangasinans, Pampangans, Igorots and increasingly Ilocanos.
Church services in San Francisco, as in most major urban areas, are offered in many languages, including 'Tagalog' , Spanish, Vietnamese, Arabic, Korean, Polish, Mandarin, and Cantonese.
Is it true that you and your brothers have all pure 'Tagalog' names?
That could be Spanish, Chinese, Arabic, Vietnamese, or 'Tagalog' .
Discounting English, he's fluent in French, Spanish, Chinese and 'Tagalog' , a Filipino language.
The libretto is mainly written in English with some parts in 'Tagalog' , Japanese and Spanish.
He speaks in slow English with some 'Tagalog' , although most would prefer Ilocano.
The languages in which we interviewed were Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese, 'Tagalog' , Urdu, Farsi, Dari, Arabic, Korean, Hindi, Spanish, and English.
All 3 nurses were college graduates, had experience translating English into 'Tagalog' , had been raised in the Philippines, and now reside in the United States.
Orders to the units would come down in English, but they still needed to be translated into Spanish, 'Tagalog' , or any of the other dialects used by commonwealth troops.
Now, my 'Tagalog' isn't strong enough for me to have responded in kind, but I did cast her a withering glance.
In 1937, the government decided to promote the use of 'Tagalog' as the national language.
As a child, Lina watched, enthralled, as old 'Tagalog' movies flickered on the schoolhouse wall.
he's 'Tagalog'
As I've mentioned before, I wrote a paper on 'Tagalog' semantics.
She has a good ear for dialogue and represents the sound of Filipino speech well with a judicious use of phrases and words in 'Tagalog' and Spanish.
The opera is sung mostly in Japanese, and some parts in English, 'Tagalog' and Spanish, with the Filipino soloists also singing in Japanese.
He learned enough Thai to get by, to add to his fluency in 'Tagalog' (his native tongue), English and Spanish.
I took an exam for 'Tagalog' , the language I learned to speak in the Philippines, and earned 10 credits for passing that exam.
Chinese was the mother tongue of just under 25 percent, while Arabic, Punjabi, 'Tagalog' , Tamil, and Persian together accounted for about 20 percent.
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