Sentence examples for Tagalog from inspiring English sources

When the Philippines became part of the Spanish empire in the 16th century, printing was introduced, and all the early published works in the vernacular (Tagalog) were of Christian religious subjects.

In speeches that swung between English and the local Tagalog, they branded their president a "crook and a thief".

Korean dramas are so popular in the Philippines that they have inspired local remakes in Tagalog.

Nepotism and patronage (known in Tagalog as utang na loob) pervade all levels of Philippine society.

Tagalog was the fastest growing language in Canada between 2006 and 2011.

Most Tagalog are farmers.

The Tagalog have thus led in the modernization and Westernization that has passed in varying degrees from Luzon to all parts of the Philippine archipelago.

Within the Philippines, the Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, and Bicol groups are significant.

In 2012, for instance, a new production of the Tagalog sarswela Walang sugat (1902; "Without Wounds," libretto by Severino Reyes, music by Fulgencio Tolentino) was staged in Manila.

Western drama is studied and widely performed in both English and Tagalog.

In the Philippines, Tagalog-language sarswela (sarsuela) was intermittently popular through the 20th century, with notable surges in the 1950s, '70s, and '80s.