Crossword-Solution: TAGAL 5 letters, 4 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 6

Under their emerald shadows curious little villages of palmetto huts are drowsing, where dwell a swarthy population of Orientals,--Malay fishermen, who speak the Spanish-Creole of the Philippines as well as their own Tagal, and perpetuate in Louisiana the Catholic traditions of the Indies.

Ang may isinuksok sa dingding, ay may titingalain, He who has put something between the wall may afterwards look on (the saving man may afterwards be cheerful).--The wall of a Tagal house is made of palm-leaves and bamboo, so that it can be used as a cupboard.

The latter name, according to Sonnerat, is stated by the Lamarck to be of Chinese origin; Herr Reymann derives it from the Tagal language.] [Footnote 3: "Dictionnaire de Botanique."] [Illustration: CANAGA ODORATA] The notice of Maximowicz,[1] "Ueber den Ursprung des Parfums Ylang-Ylang," contains only a confirmation of the derivation of the perfume from Cananga.

The most difficult is the language of Manila (which they call Tagal)--which, I have already said, Father Martin Henriquez learned in three months; and in three more, he used it fluently.

The languages most used, and most widely spread, are the Tagal and the Bisayan; and in some regions of the Pintados another tongue is also prevalent, called Harayan.