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Ta⋅ga⋅log

  [tah-gah-lawg, tuh-]
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–noun, plural -logs, (especially collectively) -log for 1.
1. a member of a Malayan people native to Luzon, in the Philippines.
2. the principal language of the Philippines, an Indonesian language of the Austronesian family.
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Ta·ga·log   (tə-gä'lôg, -ləg)   
n.   pl. Tagalog or Ta·ga·logs

  1. A member of a people native to the Philippines and inhabiting Manila and its adjacent provinces.

  2. The Austronesian language of the Tagalog on which Filipino is based.


[Perhaps Tagalog, river people : taga-, native of + ilog, river.]
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Tagalog 
people living near Manila in the Philippines, also their language, 1704, from Tagalog taga "native to" + ilog "river."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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