Tagalog

[Jessica]

Dialect spoken by many Luzon-based [Filipino]s. Tagalog is generally regarded as the [lingua franca] among Filipinos at home and abroad, but there are several other dialects spoken across the archipelago, and there is some sensitivity about treating Tagalog as definitively Filipino.
Also refers to the ethnicity of Tagalog-speaking natives. One theorized origin of the word is taga-ilog, meaning from the river.

[Monty]

Main lanuage for Filipinos (Flip).

[Hina Muqadas]

Main Entry: Ta·ga·log
Pronunciation: \te-gä-lóg\
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural Tagalog or Tagalogs
Etymology: Tagalog
Date: 1808
1 : a member of a people of central Luzon
2 : an Austronesian language of the Tagalog people

[Gregory]

A language native to the southern part of the island of Luzon in the Philippines. The Tagalog language is the main base language for the one of the official languages of the Philippines, Filipino (the other official language is English). The language, like most of the languages of the Philippines, is related to Malaysian, Indonesian, Hawaiian, Tongan, Somoan, some southern Taiwanese languages, and many more that are included in the Austronesian group of languages. The language has about 18 million native speakers. Tagalog can also refer to the Tagalog people.

[Ernesto]

A [sexpat]s official language.

[Zipporah Schumaker]

The language of the pig that we call Filipino.

[Zipporah Schumaker]

A member of a people originally of central Luzon in the Philippine Islands.