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suluano
Also known as Joloano, Sulu, Suluk, Tausug language, tsg
lingua
Key facts
- Native to
- Philippines , Malaysia , Indonesia
- Region
- — Spoken throughout the Sulu Archipelago (Basilan and Tawi-Tawi), southern Palawan,eastern Sabah and northern portion of North Kalimantan , — Also spoken in Zamboanga City and Zamboanga Peninsula
- Ethnicity
- Tausūg
- Native speakers
- 1.93 million (2013–2020)
- Language family
- Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Philippine Greater Central Philippine Central Philippine Bisayan Southern Bisayan Butuan –Tausug Tausūg
- Writing system
- Latin ( Filipino alphabet ), Arabic ( Jawi alphabet ), Historically Luntar Sūg
- Official language in
- Regional language in the Philippines
- Regulated by
- Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
- Iso 639 3
- tsg
- Glottolog
- taus1251
via Wikipedia infobox