When Spain colonized the Philippines, they were administrated by Mexico City. So it was Mexican Spanish, not Castilian Spanish, that influenced Tagalog.
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Tagalog
//t̪ɐˈɡaː.loɡ̚//
Synonyms for "tagalog" (9 found)
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2 entriesTranslations
63 translations across 33 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- تَاغَالُوغِيَّة name (language)
Armenian
2 entries- տագալերեն name (language)
- տագալոգ name (language)
Asturian
1 entries- tagalu name (language)
Belarusian
2 entries- тага́льская name (language)
- тага́льская мо́ва name (language)
Bengali
1 entries- তাগালোগভাষা name (language)
Bikol Central
2 entries- Tagalog name (language)
- Tagalog noun (member of the Filipino ethnic group)
Bulgarian
1 entries- тага́лог name (language)
Catalan
3 entries- tagàlog adj (of or relating to the Tagalogs)
- tagal name (language)
- tagàlog name (language)
Cebuano
4 entries- Tagalog adj (of or relating to the Tagalogs)
- Tagalug adj (of or relating to the Tagalogs)
- Tagalog name (language)
- Tagalug name (language)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 他加祿語 /他加禄语 name (language)
Czech
1 entries- tagalština name (language)
Danish
1 entries- tagalog name (language)
Finnish
2 entries- tagalog name (language)
- tagaali noun (member of the Filipino ethnic group)
French
1 entries- tagalog name (language)
Galician
3 entries- tagalo adj (of or relating to the Tagalogs)
- tagalo name (language)
- tagalo noun (member of the Filipino ethnic group)
German
2 entries- Tagalog name (language)
- Tagale noun (member of the Filipino ethnic group)
Greek
1 entries- ταγκαλόγκ name (language)
Hebrew
1 entries- טאגאלוג name (language)
Hindi
2 entries- टागालोग name (language)
- टागालोग भाषा name (language)
Hungarian
3 entries- tagalog adj (of or relating to the Tagalogs)
- tagalog name (language)
- tagalog noun (member of the Filipino ethnic group)
Japanese
1 entries- タガログ語 name (language)
Kapampangan
3 entries- Tagalug adj (of or relating to the Tagalogs)
- Tagalug name (language)
- Tagalug noun (member of the Filipino ethnic group)
Korean
1 entries- 타갈로그어 name (language)
Malay
3 entries- Tagalog adj (of or relating to the Tagalogs)
- bahasa Tagalog name (language)
- orang Tagalog noun (member of the Filipino ethnic group)
Persian
1 entries- زبان تاگالوگ name (language)
Portuguese
1 entries- tagalo name (language)
Russian
4 entries- тага́льский adj (of or relating to the Tagalogs)
- тага́лог name (language)
- тага́льский name (language)
- тага́л noun (member of the Filipino ethnic group)
Spanish
2 entries- tagalo adj (of or relating to the Tagalogs)
- tagalo name (language)
Swedish
1 entries- tagalog name (language)
Tagalog
2 entries- Tagalog adj (of or relating to the Tagalogs)
- Tagalog name (language)
Thai
1 entries- ภาษาตากาล็อก name (language)
Turkish
3 entries- Tagalog adj (of or relating to the Tagalogs)
- Tagalogca name (language)
- Tagalog noun (member of the Filipino ethnic group)
Ukrainian
2 entries- тага́лог name (language)
- тага́льська name (language)
Sample sentences
10 total sentences available.
Tagalog has artistic value, like a carved Pacific Islander statue, Mr. and Mrs. Matsuo opine.
Source: tatoeba (1599627)
He found few Tagalog books amongst the mostly English books at the Filipino bookstore.
Source: tatoeba (1647593)
Philippines is called "Pilipinas" in Tagalog.
Source: tatoeba (1815445)
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