Tagalog

Tagalog is defined as a dialect of a group of people who live in the Manila area of the Philippine Islands.

(noun)

See Tagalog in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

pl. Tagalogs or Tagalog a member of the ethnic group that is indigenous to Manila and the surrounding region in the Philippines
the Western Austronesian language of this ethnic group, an official language of the Republic of the Philippines

Origin: < ?

See Tagalog in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun pl. Tagalog Tagalog or Ta·ga·logs

A member of a people native to the Philippines and inhabiting Manila and its adjacent provinces.
The Austronesian language of the Tagalog on which Filipino is based.

Origin:

Origin: Perhaps Tagalog, river people

Origin: : taga-, native of

Origin: + ilog, river

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