Babang luksa ni diosdado macapagal tagalog biography
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Bibliotherapy: Prescriptions for Delight
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History of the Tagalog People of the Philippines
| Tam Austria, Malakas at Maganda, (Photo courtesy of Leon Gallery Fine Arts and Antiquities) |
The Tagalog comprise one of the eight major Philippine ethnolinguistic groups. Tagalog is believed to be a contraction of either taga-ilog or taga-alog, which is from the prefix taga, signifying place of birth or residence, and ilog, meaning river or alog, which is old Tagalog for shallow portion of a river or a low-lying area that floods during rains. Thus the word means river dwellers, a direct reference to the riparian civilization of this group.
For centuries, Tagalog has referred to the natives of the provinces of Aurora, Bataan, Batangas, Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, Manila, Marinduque, Nueva Ecija, Occidental Mindoro, Oriental Mindoro, Quezon, Rizal, and certain parts of Zambales and Tarlac, and of the cities of Cabanatuan, Gapan, Palayan, Muñoz, Balanga, Caloocan, Quezon, Pasay, Manila, Makati, Mandaluyong,
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