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Columbia Encyclopedia entry: Tagalog
Tagalogtəgä'ləg, tägä'lŏg or Tagaltägäl', 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.

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Tagalog (redirected from Tagalog) is an Austronesian language spoken in the Philippines by about 22 million people. It is related to Austronesian languages such as Chamorro, Indonesian, Malay, Javanese and Paiwan, Cham, and Tetum. It is the first language of the Philippines' Region IV and is the basis for the national and the official language of the Philippines, Filipino. The word Tagalog derived from tagailog, from tagá- meaning "native of" and ílog meaning "river." Thus, it means "river dweller." Very little is known about the history of the language. However, according to linguists such as Dr. David Zorc and Dr. Robert Blust, the Tagalogs...more »
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  • Hukbalahap

    Hukbalahap (Huk), Communist-led guerrilla movement in the Philippines. It developed during World War II as a guerrilla army to fight the Japanese; the name is a contraction of a Tagalog phrase...

  • Bloomfield, Leonard

    Bloomfield, Leonard, 1887–1949, American linguist, b. Chicago. Bloomfield was professor at Ohio State Univ. (1921–27), at the Univ. of Chicago (1927–40), and at Yale (from 1940). His specialty...

  • Malayo-Polynesian languages

    Malayo-Polynesian languages, sometimes also called Austronesian languages, family of languages estimated at from 300 to 500 tongues and understood by approximately 300 million people in Madaga...

  • Luzon

    Luzon, island (1990 pop. 30,797,458), 40,420 sq mi (104,688 sq km), largest, most populous, and most important of the Philippine Islands. The irregular coastline of Luzon provides several fine...

  • Philippines, The

    Philippines, The, officially Republic of the Philippines, republic (2005 est. pop. 87,857,000), 115,830 sq mi (300,000 sq km), SW Pacific, in the Malay Archipelago off the SE Asia mainland. It...

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