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Tagalog, n. and a.|təˈgɑːlɒg|
Also † Tagal, -la, -lian, -lic, -loc.
[a. Tagalog, f. tagá native to + ilog river; cf. Sp. tagalo.]
A. n.
a. (A member of) a people living in the neighbourhood of Manila in the Philippine Islands.
b. The Austronesian language spoken by this people, an official language of the Republic of the Philippines.
1704tr. Careri's Voy. round World in A. & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. & Trav. IV. 430/2 From these are descended the Tagalians, which are the Natives of Manila and the Country about it. Ibid. 446/2 The Languages are so numerous, that there are six in the only Island of Manila, which are Tagalian, Pampangan, [etc.]. 1808Asiatick Researches X. 207 The Tagala or rather Tă-Gála or the Gala language is among the Philippines, what the Malayu is in the Malay islands. Ibid. 213 With respect to the original literature of the Tăgalás, the accounts of the Spanish missionaries are rather discordant. 1814J. Maver Martinez de Zuñiga's Hist. View Philippine Islands I. p. xi, In respect to the aboriginal language, or Tagalic, very slight attempts have been made to trace it beyond the quarter in which it was found to prevail. Our author..draws the conclusion that the Tagalic language and original population of all the islands westward of the coast of South America derive from that continent. 1834W. Marsden Misc. Wks. 39 Of these dialects six are considered as meriting distinction..; they are the Tagala or Tagalog [etc.]. 1840Penny Cycl. XVIII. 88/2 The Malays are divided into a great number of tribes, of which that called Tagala occupies the neighbourhood of Manila. 1885Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 753/1 First among these rank the Tagals... Their language (Tagalog) especially has made extensive encroachments on the other Philippine tongues since the conquest. 1919F. R. Blake in C. F. Hockett Leonard Bloomfield Anthol. (1970) 82 This work contains an extended treatment of Tagalog, the most important native language of the Philippine Islands. 1933L. Bloomfield Language vi. 105 Even simpler is the three-vowel system which appears in some languages, such as Tagalog. 1974Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IX. 764/3 Most Tagalogs are farmers. 1976‘G. Black’ Moon for Killers vi. 83 A verbal exchange..starting in English, shifting to Spanish, and then apparently getting down to the real obscenities in Tagálog.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people or their language.
1808Asiatick Researches X. 208 The Tăgála alphabet consists of seventeen letters. 1814[see the n. above]. 1859J. Bowring Philippine Islands xiii. 219 What is the Tagáloc language? 1906Jrnl. Amer. Folk-Lore XIX. 191 (heading) Philippine (Tagalog) superstitions. 1959N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 131 Miguel said something to the other Filipinos in the Tagalog language. 1978M. B. Hooker Conc. Legal Hist. South-East Asia viii. 215 The Maragtas text..is found in a recension dated A.D. 1650 written in the Tagalog script. |