Spoken L1 Language: Tausug
- AES status:
- not endangered
- Source:
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David M. Eberhard and Gary F. Simons and Charles D. Fennig 2024
- Comment:
- Tausug (tsg-tsg) = 3 (Wider communication). De facto language of provincial identity in Sulu and Tawi-Tawi provinces. Came as a trade language from northeast Mindanao around the 10th century. Lingua franca of the Sulu sultanate at the beginning of the 15th century. Tausug people now the dominant group in the Sulu archipelago. Used in all domains by all generations.
Glottolog
[tsg] at ISO 639-3
[tsg] at OLAC
[tsg] at IMTVault
Tausug at Grambank
Tausug at WALS
Wikipedia
PHOIBLE
Wikidata