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say it: TAG-uh-lahg
tagalog is a noun meaning "a member of a people native to the Philippines chiefly inhabiting central Luzon around and including Manila". It is pronounced /ˈtæɡəˌlɑɡ/ — TAG-uh-lahg. It carries 2 recorded senses.
a member of a people native to the Philippines chiefly inhabiting central Luzon around and including Manila
the language of the Tagalog on which Filipino is based
Forms marked are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tagalog come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.