A member of the largest Filipino ethnolinguistic group. / (chiefly Cebu) a speaker of the Tagalog language

Of or relating to the Tagalogs.

plural of Tagalog

plural of tagalong

One who, or that which, tags along.

plural of barong Tagalog

A lightweight embroidered formal shirt, considered the national dress of the Philippines.

The ancient or older language of Tagalog mostly spoken and sparsely written in the Philippines from about 900 C.E. to 1521 C.E., when it soon developed into Classical Tagalog after Christianization by the Spanish arrival. It developed from Proto-Philippine, with heavy influence from Classical Sanskrit, Old Malay, Middle Tamil and Late Middle Chinese (either Hokkien or Cantonese) and was written using the Baybayin script.

The older language of Tagalog spoken and written in the Philippines from about 1521 C.E. to 1897 C.E., before soon developing into Modern Tagalog (Filipino) by the time of the Philippine Revolution. It developed from Old Tagalog after Christianization in the Spanish colonial period, with heavy influence from Spanish(Early Modern Spanish and Modern Spanish), Chinese(especially Hokkien), and Japanese. This was also when it first started being written in the Latin script.

Tagalog.