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noun
Tagal  n.  
1.
One of a Malayan race, mainly of central Luzon, next to the Visayans the most numerous of the native peoples of the Philippines. Nearly all are Christians and many are highly educated.
2.
The language of the Tagals; Tagalog.





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"Tagal" Quotes from Famous Books



... Cristoval de Axqueta Menchaca with soldiers to pursue and finish the enemy. This man left with two hundred Spaniards—soldiers and volunteers—three hundred Japanese, and one thousand five hundred Pampanga and Tagal Indians, [186] on the twentieth of October. He was so expeditious, that with little or no loss of men, he found the Sangleys fortified in San Pablo and Batangas, and, after fighting with them, killed and destroyed ...
— History of the Philippine Islands Vols 1 and 2 • Antonio de Morga
... derived from a Tagal word, manilad, meaning "a place overgrown with nilad"—which is the name of a small tree, bearing ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1803 - Volume III, 1569-1576 • E.H. Blair


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