Sentence examples for the tagalog from inspiring English sources
noun
A member of the second largest Filipino ethnic group.
Villagers called it bangungot, the Tagalog word for nightmares.
More than 80 percent of the people in the Tagalog provinces are Roman Catholic.
The Tagalog, however, have sharply resisted alien economic and political control.
Within the Philippines, the Tagalog, Cebuano, Ilocano, and Bicol groups are significant.
(A chalkboard by the bar announces the Tagalog word of the day).
The word "cootie" derives from the Tagalog word "kutu," or "parasitic biting insect".
The Tagalog-language "Bwakaw" was written and directed by Jun Robles Lana, a Filipino playwright and screenwriter who has also written extensively for television.
The Filipinos laughed hardest when the debate was in Tagalog, but the Tagalog-challenged laughed at the intonations and body language.
In contrast, Mayrinax Atayal is grouped as a T-type ergative language because Mayrinax does not have the Tagalog-type control construction in which the embedded verb is transitive (NAV).
The Americans then suppressed the sub-states the First Republic had fractured into: mainly, the waning Sultanate of Sulu, as well as the insurgent Tagalog Republic, the Cantonal Republic of Negros, in the Visayas, and the Republic of Zamboanga, in Mindanao.
Through the fronds of jungle vegetation, the subtitled Tagalog and the affectionately noted Filipino customs, "Amigo" invites you to contemplate other, more recently contested landscapes of counterinsurgency.
