Tausug Language
Tausūg (Tausūg: Bahasa Sūg, Malay: Bahasa Suluk, Tagalog: Wikang Tausug, Cebuano: Tinausug) is a language spoken in the province of Sulu in the Philippines, in Malaysia, and in Indonesia by the Tausūg people.
It is widely spoken in the Sulu Archipelago (Basilan, Sulu and Tawi-Tawi), Zamboanga Peninsula (Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga Sibugay, Zamboanga del Sur, and Zamboanga City), Southern Palawan and in Sabah (Malaysia). It is very closely related to the Butuanon language of northeastern Mindanao.
The name of the language in Tausūg is Bahasa Sūg which means language of the Sūg where Sūg is taken to mean the area in which it is spoken (i.e. Sulu). The word Tausūg is the name used colloquially where Tau means 'person' and hence Tausūg means person of Sūg (Sulu).
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