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| | 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-Ãlog, from tagá- meaning "native" and Ãlog 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) |
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