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  Tagalog language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tagalog, as its standardized counterpart, Filipino, is the principal language of the national media in the Philippines.
Tagalog is also spoken natively by inhabitants living on the islands of Lubang, Marinduque, and the northern and eastern parts of Mindoro.
Tagalog was written in an abugida called Baybayin prior to the arrival of the Spaniards in the 16th century.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tagalog_language   (2849 words)

  
 Tagalog language | Topic Definition | Find the Meaning and Define the Answer of Tagalog language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Tagalog was derived from tagá-ílog, from tagá- meaning "native" and ílog meaning "river", thus, it means "resident beside the river." Since there are no written samples of Tagalog before the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century, very little is known about history of the language.
Tagalog vocabulary is composed mostly of words of Austronesian origin with borrowings from Spanish, Min Nan Chinese (also known as Hokkien or Fujianese), English, Malay, Sanskrit, Arabic, Tamil, Persian, Kapampangan, languages spoken on Luzon, and others, especially other Austronesian languages.
The word boondocks which means 'rural' or 'back country', was imported by American soldiers stationed in the Philippines from the Tagalog bundok, which means "'mountain." Another word is cogon, which is a type of grass, used for thatching.
www.thefreeencyclopedia.com /definition/word.aspx?w=Tagalog_language   (1791 words)

  
 Tagalog language - GigaDictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Tagalog is widely used as a lingua franca throughout the country.
Tagalog spoken in Manila is often admixed with the various regional vernaculars, Manila being the melting-pot of the nation's ethno-linguistic groups.
The Tagalog dialect spoken in Marinduque have traces of influence from the Visayan languages.
www.gigadictionary.com /Tagalog_language   (2913 words)

  
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Likewise, with Tagalog being the national language of the Philippines, its widespread usage explains why Asi would have been influenced by it, especially as it is the language of wider communication between Tablas's speakers of Asi, Onhan, Romblomanon, and Tagalog.
Of course, these words are not borrowings from another Philippine language like Tagalog, but are part of the vocabulary that all of these languages have inherited from their common parent language.
I use the word "creole" with some reservations, as a creole is usually the result of the convergence of peoples speaking genetically unrelated languages, therefore resulting in a simplification of grammatical and phonological structures.
quicksitemaker.com /members/merano/language.html   (3822 words)

  
 Malay-based creole languages - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Betawi Udik dialect: Originally spoken in suburban Jakarta, Tangerang, Banten, and Bogor and Bekasi in West Java.
Tagalog is the official and national language of The Philippines.
Malay words in Tagalog are also heard in common objects, like batik, duryan (from durian), kapok, kris (from keris), ratan (rattan, from rotan), rambutan, sarong, kalabaw and kalapati(from merpati).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Baba_Malay   (1484 words)

  
 Tagalog language - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The word Tagalog was derived from tagá-ílog, from tagá- meaning "native of" and ílog meaning "river", thus, it means "resident beside the river." Since there are no written samples of Tagalog before the arrival of the Spanish in the 16th century, very little is known about the history of the language.
There are three known varieties of Chabacano which have Tagalog as their substrate language: Caviteño, Ternateño, and Ermitaño.
Tagalog has contributed several words to the Spanish, like barangay (from balañgay meaning barrio), the abaca, cogon, yoyo, etc.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Tagalog   (2126 words)

  
 English_language - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Many French words are also intelligible to an English speaker (though pronunciations are often quite different, of course) because English absorbed a large vocabulary from French, via the Norman after the Norman conquest and directly from French in further centuries.
There many words in English coined to describe forms of particular non-English languages that contain a very high proportion of English words - Franglais, for example, is used to describe French with a very high English word content; it is spoken mostly in the border bilingual regions of Québec in Canada.
However, the excessive use of Latinate words is considered by some to be either pretentious (as in the stereotypical policeman's talk of "apprehending the suspect") or an attempt to obfuscate an issue.
www.timesharetalk.co.uk /information.asp?k=English_language   (5579 words)

  
 Asia Finest Discussion Forum > Ate and kuya ,Filipino sibling titles
Tagalog is the most important of the many tongues and dialects of the Philippines on account of its being widely understood, and the most developed by contact with foreign idioms.
Thus in may cases Americans and Tagalogs use words in their own languages which are from the same remote source in India, and coming aroung the earth east and west to meet again in the Philippines.
The Arabic words in Tagalog, which are hardly more than a dozen in number, evidently came in with the Mohammedan religion, and upon the extinction of that faith around the mouth of the Pasig, all but a few words fell into disuse.
www.asiafinest.com /forum/lofiversion/index.php/t14351.html   (3797 words)

  
 Tagalogs - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Tagalogs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The majority ethnic group living around Manila on the island of Luzon, in the Philippines, who number about 10 million (1988).
In its standardized form, known as Pilipino, Tagalog is the official language of the Philippines, and belongs to the Western branch of the Austronesian family.
The Tagalog religion is a mixture of animism, Christianity, and Islam.
encyclopedia.farlex.com /Tagalogs   (109 words)

  
 Help.com - german language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
It is also spoken by German-speaking foreign populations and some of their descendants in Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, Netherlands, and Scandinavia.
In the German orthography, nouns and most words with the syntactical function of nouns are capitalized, which makes it quite easy for readers to find out what function a word has within the sentence.
Hebrew traditionally (nowadays this is not the case) used the Biblical term Ashkenaz (Genesis 10:3) to refer to Germany, or to certain parts of it, and the Ashkenazi Jews are those who originate from Germany and Eastern Europe and formerly spoke Yiddish as their native language, derived from Middle High German.
help.com /wiki/German_language   (4461 words)

  
 Earliest Civilizations, the Steppe, Vedas, Upanishads, and the Mandukya Upanishad
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The word "veda" is from the root vid, "to know," making for other derivates like vidya, "knowledge," and avidya, "ignorance." The vid root is cognate to idea in Greek, video in Latin, and wit in English.
This is the lord (îshvara) of all; this is the knower of all; this is the inner controller; this is the source of all, indeed the origin as well as the end of all beings.
www.friesian.com /upan.htm   (5980 words)

  
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And from a translation of the original hieroglyphs, I also knew that the significance of the height was the lifespan of the pharaoh or king buried in the structure.
Whenever the word ZION is used by the Old Testament prophets, it refers to the United States of America, as opposed to Jerusalem, usually meaning of course the whole land of Israel.
In the original language, as I said before, the Holy Ghost is called the “lord of fifty.” I did not mention that the number five is associated with fathers; that is, one of the translations for the word “father” is “five-person”.
www.angelfire.com /co4/translations   (18479 words)

  
 yourDictionary.com.Comprehensive and Authoritative Language Portal
The words have been selected from an original list of 11,699 types which were identified as being new by filtering software developed by the University of Liverpool Research and Development Unit for English Studies during the AVIATOR Project, 1990-1993.
Type in a phrase or word and this analyzer will identify the parts of speech and their morphological functions.
Word Manager is a system for the acquisition and management of reusable morphological and phrasal dictionaries.
www.yourdictionary.com /morph.html   (1887 words)

  
 tagalo information,tagalog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
However there is speculation among linguists that the ancestors of the tagalos originated, alongwith their Central Philippine cousins, from northeastern Mindanao or eastern Visayas.
Below is a chart of tagalo and eleven other Austronesian languages comparing twelve words; the first ten languages are spokenin the Philippines and the other two are spoken in Indonesia and in Hawai'i.
The word boondocks which means 'rural' or 'back country', was imported by American soldiers stationed in the Philippines from the tagalobundok, which means "'mountain." Another word is cogon, which is a type of grass, used for thatching.
www.vsearchmedia.com /tagalo.html   (1544 words)

  
 agalog information,tagalog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
However there is speculation among linguists that the ancestors of the agalogs originated, alongwith their Central Philippine cousins, from northeastern Mindanao or eastern Visayas.
Below is a chart of agalog and eleven other Austronesian languages comparing twelve words; the first ten languages are spokenin the Philippines and the other two are spoken in Indonesia and in Hawai'i.
The word boondocks which means 'rural' or 'back country', was imported by American soldiers stationed in the Philippines from the agalogbundok, which means "'mountain." Another word is cogon, which is a type of grass, used for thatching.
www.vsearchmedia.com /agalog.html   (1544 words)

  
 Science Fair Projects - Tagalog language
Even in non-technical situations, Filipinos may speak English in conjunction with Tagalog for brevity, emphasis, or for phrases that lack a convenient analogue.
Ermitaño is said to be extinct, however a total of 210,000 speak Caviteño and Ternateño, according to the 2000 Census.
For example, Proto-Philippine *dələm (dark) is Tagalog dilím and Visayan and Bikol dulom.
www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Tagalog_language   (2222 words)

  
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i'm not exactly sure of the origin of the word because in much of latin america, they're called chancletas or chanclas (sp.) or sandalias.
in spain, for instance, if a spaniard asks me where i am from originally (they always say that word--originally), and i respond las filipinas, there is usually no further interrogation.
most people, american born or foreign, will stop at nothing to pinhole you into a particular island in the world, as if--as if--they know where such island is. most of these queries have nothing to do with interest, but rather, one's desire to satiate one's own xenophobia.
calzoncillo.blogspot.com   (2896 words)

  
 666man.net - Home Page
In other words, one method may be overlaid on top of the other, with the historical perspective being the base layer from which everything is viewed.
There is nothing wrong with generalizing the definition of most words, but that does not work where the beasts of Revelation 13 and 17 are concerned, for good reasons.
In other words, for example, the leopard had four leopard heads on it and did not have bear heads on it to indicate that the succeeding kingdoms were totally unlike the kingdom they came from and came from somewhere other than the original kingdom.
www.666man.net   (16464 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Reviews for Tagalog Eng Eng Tagalog Standard Dictionary: Books: Carl Rubino   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
If there was ever a word one of us couldn't translate, we whipped out this book and it was in there 99 percent of the time.
I have three other Tagalog dictionaries as well as language tapes and this one is by far the best.
Not only does provide the equivalent of a word in one language, but it also gives the origin; whether it's from Chinese, Spanish, English, etc. The dictionary also has a brief section about pronunciation and grammar.
www.amazon.ca /gp/product/customer-reviews/0781809606   (733 words)

  
 Tagalog_language info here at en.businessfeeder.info   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Tagalog Language of Philippines After typing this I should remember or maybe remember how to spell the word.
Language is a culture, the culture expresses itself in the way they think, then when the talk it is the culture.
E. Marinduque Tagalog: Másúlat da Maria at Fulgencia kay Juan.
en.businessfeeder.info /Tagalog_language   (2880 words)

  
 FORUM - Preparing to Print Topic 'Japanese lesson'
Foreign students often call our first name like 'Tomoka-sensei', it sounds friendly so we don't care whether they use the first name or family name :) To call teachers as 'sensei' shows your respect, and to call the person like '-chan' shows your affection or friednliness.
Both words are used only in casual situation, when talk to friends or family.
They have male/female words, and that changes endings of words, etc.) I have many questions but this is what came to my mind right now.
www.phrasebase.com /forum/read.php?action=print&TID=2447   (9484 words)

  
 German language
Some German speaking communities still survive in parts of Romania, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and above all Russia, Kazakhstan and Poland, although massive relocations to Germany in the late 1940s and 1990s have depopulated most of these communities.
However, German remains one of the most popular foreign languages taught world-wide, and is more popular than French as a foreign language in Europe.
Most German vocabulary is derived from the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family, although there are significant minorities of words derived from Latin, French, and most recently English (which is known as Germish).
www.savage-comedy.com /_German_language   (4393 words)

  
 TB Education & Training Resources - Intermediate Search
Selecting "all of the words" (default) allows for a more specific search.
Selecting "at least one of the words" allows for a broader search.
You may jump to selections in these lists by typing the first letter of the word you would like to select.
www.findtbresources.org /scripts/index.cfm?FuseAction=IntSearch&SaveParams=No   (125 words)

  
 Asia/Pacific Computer Services - links about Spoken Languages, Speech Recognition, Translation
How terminology affects a solution's chances in the global market - the proactive management of terminology should be a key component of any plan for developing and marketing products and software solutions in multiple markets.
Hear Peter Ladefoged pronounce all of the vowel and consonant symbols on the basic IPA chart.
How to insert special characters in a Word document (inserting characters such as dingbats and accented letters for foreign languages via the Symbol Dialog, Shortcut keys, Auto Format, and Auto Correct)
www.notestracker.com /Links/SpokenLanguages.htm   (4202 words)

  
 Other Sites: Biblical & Educational Resources
Linked Word Bible (most words are linked to original language definitions)
Pelagianism: Denial of original sin and the need for grace
European Origin of the Church of the Brethren
www.cob-net.org /othr_edu.htm   (1019 words)

  
 Tagalog - tagalo
Southern Tagalog groups add signatures in impeach complaint
Leaders of various militant and progressive peoples organizations in Southern Tagalog led by the Bagong Alyansang Makabayan (Bayan) yesterday trooped to the House of Representatives to sign the yet to be filed impeachment complaint against President Arroyo.
Thank you for reading the Tagalog page - tagalo.
www.livoc.com /taco/Tagalog.php   (2662 words)

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