Tagalogn.adj.

1704 tr. G. F. Gemelli Careri Voy. round World i. vi, in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. IV. 430/2 From these are descended the Tagalians, which are the Natives of Manila and the Country about it.

1808 Asiatick Researches 10 213 With respect to the original literature of the Tăgalás, the accounts of the Spanish missionaries are rather discordant.

1840 Penny Cycl. XVIII. 88/2 The Malays are divided into a great number of tribes, of which that called Tagala occupies the neighbourhood of Manila.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia IX. 764/3 Most Tagalogs are farmers.

1704 tr. G. F. Gemelli Careri Voy. round World ii. i, in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. IV. 446/2 The Languages are so numerous, that there are six in the only Island of Manila, which are Tagalian, Pampangan, [etc.].

1808 Asiatick Researches 10 207 The Tagala or rather Tă-Gála or the Gala language is among the Philippines, what the Malayu is in the Malay islands.

1814 J. Maver tr. J. M. de Zũniga 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.

1834 W. Marsden Misc. Wks. 39 Of these dialects six are considered as meriting distinction..; they are the Tagala or Tagalog [etc.].

1885 Encycl. 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.

1919 F. 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.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. vi. 105 Even simpler is the three-vowel system which appears in some languages, such as Tagalog.

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.