Taal may refer to:
*An early name for the
Afrikaans
Afrikaans (, ) is a West Germanic language that evolved in the Dutch Cape Colony from the Dutch vernacular of Holland proper (i.e., the Hollandic dialect) used by Dutch, French, and German settlers and their enslaved people. Afrikaans gra ...
language
*The South African creole language
Tsotsitaal
Tsotsitaal is a vernacular derived from a variety of mixed languages mainly spoken in the townships of Gauteng province (such as Soweto), but also in other agglomerations all over South Africa. ''Tsotsi'' is a Sesotho, Pedi or Tswana slang wor ...
Geography
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Taal, Batangas, a municipality in the Philippines
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Taal Lake, a freshwater lake in the Philippines
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Taal Volcano, an active volcano in the Philippines
Arts and fiction
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Taal (instrument), Indian hand clash cymbals
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Tala (music)
A tala ( IAST ''tāla'') literally means a 'clap, tapping one's hand on one's arm, a musical measure'. It is the term used in Indian classical music similar to musical meter, that is any rhythmic beat or strike that measures musical time. The ...
or taal, the term used in Indian classical music to refer to musical meter
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''Taal'' (film), 1999 Indian Hindi film by Subhash Ghai
*Taal, God of Beasts in the universe of
Warhammer Fantasy (setting)
*Taal,
progressive rock
Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...
band from France
See also
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Ta'al
Ta'al ( he, תַּעַ״ל, an acronym for he, תְּנוּעָה עֲרָבִית לְהִתְחַדְּשׁוּת, label=none, lit=Arab Movement for Renewal, ar, الحركة العربية للتغيير) is an Israeli Arab political party ...
(Arab Movement for Renewal), an Arab-Israeli political party founded by Ahmad Tibi
*Ta'al is also an abbreviation for
tat aluf
''Aluf'' ( he, אלוף, lit=champion or "First\leader of a group" in Biblical Hebrew; ) is a senior military rank in the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) for officers who in other countries would have the rank of general, air marshal, or admiral ...
, Israeli military rank
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Talen (disambiguation)
Transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALEN) are restriction enzymes that can be engineered to cut specific sequences of DNA. They are made by fusing a TAL effector DNA-binding domain to a DNA cleavage domain (a nuclease which cuts DNA ...
, the plural form of the word ''taal''
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