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Tagalog

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Tagalog (təgä`ləg, tägä`lŏg) or Tagal (tägäl`), dominant people of Luzon, the Philippines, and the second largest ethnolinguistic group in the Philippines. They number about 16 million. Most of the population is Christian. Tagalog, a Malayo-Polynesian language that had a written standard form before the coming of the Spanish, is the legal national language of the Philippines, where it is called Pilipino.

Tagalog

Any member of the largest cultural-linguistic group in the Philippines. They are the dominant population of Manila and of several provinces near the city. Most are Roman Catholic, and most are farmers; their main cash crops are sugarcane and coconuts. Manila's dominance has given the urban Tagalog economic leadership in the Philippines. The Tagalog language is the basis of Pilipino, the national language.


Tagalog
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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