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타우수그어

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타우수그어

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Also known as Joloano, Sulu, Suluk, Tausug language, tsg

Visayan language spoken in the Philippines and Malaysia

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

Wikidata facts

Instance of
modern language
Subclass of
Bisayan
Country
Malaysia
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Commons category
Tausug language
Wikimedia language code
tsg
different from
Tausug people
indigenous to
Sulu
topic's main category
Category:Tausug language
native label
Bahasa Sūg
number of speakers, writers, or signers
1100000
writing system
Jawi
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