TAGALOG

ETHNIC GROUP IN LUZON

 ETYMOLOGY
The commonly perpetuated origin
for the endonym "Tagalog" is the
term tagá-ilog, which means
"people from along the river" (the Click icon to add picture
prefix tagá- meaning "coming
from" or "native of"). However,
this explanation is a mistranslation
of the correct term tagá-álog, which
means "people from the ford“.

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 TAGALOG

The largest ethnic group in the

Philippines, the Tagalog are
concentrated about metropolitan Click icon to add picture
Manila and represent the major
population component of the Luzon
proviinces of Rizal, Laguna,
Cavite, Batangas, Bulacan, and
Nueva Ecija.

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 TAGALOG
The Tagalog people (Tagalog: Mga Tagalog,baybayin
are the largest ethnolinguistic group in the
Philippines, numbering at around 30 million. An
Austronesian people, the Tagalog have a well
developed society due to their cultural heartland,
Manila, being the capital city of the Philippines.
They are native to the Metro Manila and Calabarzon
regions of southern Luzon, and comprise the majority
in the provinces of Bulacan, Bataan, Nueva Ecija and
Aurora in Central Luzon and in the islands of
Marinduque and Mindoro in Mimaropa.

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 TAGALOG
Tagalog settlements are generally lowland, commonly oriented
towards banks near the delta or wawà (mouth of a river).
Culturally, it is rare for native Tagalog people to identify
themselves as Tagalog as part of their collective identity as an
ethnolinguistic group due to cultural differences, specialization,
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and geographical isolation. The native masses commonly identify
their native cultural group by provinces, such as Batangueño,
Bulakenyo, and Marindukanon, or by towns, such as Lukbanin,
Tayabasin, and Infantahin. Likewise, most cultural aspects of the
Tagalog people orient towards decentralized specializations of
provinces and towns.

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 PREHISTORY
Before the colonial period, the term "Tagalog" was originally used to
differentiate river dwellers (taga-ilog) from mountain dwellers (taga-
bundok, less common tingues between Nagcarlan and Lamon Bay,
despite speaking the same language. Further exceptions include the
present-day Batangas Tagalogs, who referred to themselves as people
of Kumintang - a distinction formally maintained throughout the
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colonial period. Allegiance to a bayan differentiated between its
natives called tawo and foreigners, who either also spoke Tagalog or
other languages - the latter called samot or samok. Beginning in the
Spanish colonial period, documented foreign spellings of the term
ranged from Tagalos to Tagalor.

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 PREHISTORY
Like the majority of Filipinos, the Tagalog people primarily descend
from seafaring Austronesians who migrated southwards to the
Philippine islands from the island of Taiwan some 4,000 years ago.
Contact with the much earlier Negritos resulted in a gradually
developed scenario seen throughout the Philippine archipelago of
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coastal, lowland, predominantly Austronesian-speaking seafaring
settlements and land-based Negrito hunter-gatherers confined to
forested and mountainous inlands, along with inland Austronesians
oriented towards rivers. Both groups variably mixed with each other
from millennia of general coexistence, yet even up to Spanish advent
social distinctions between them still remained.

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 CLOTHING
Tagalogs wore intricate clothes that illuminate
their status, with the datus and katolonans
having worn accessories made of high-quality
materials. Slaves, on the other hand, wore
simple clothing and linens. In later centuries,
noble Tagalogs shifted to wearing the barong
tagalog for males and the baro’t saya for
females. After Philippine Independence, these
became the national costume of the country
since the majority of the wearers came from
Manila.

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 CUISINE
The Tagalogs are known for their unique
dishes, such as sinigang, a sour and savory
soup or stew; puto, a steamed rice cake
traditionally made from galapong; bistek
Tagalog, made of salted and peppered sirloin
beef and is anglicized in Philippine English as
“beefsteak”; and pastillas de leche, a well-
loved milk candy dessert.

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Wala na
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