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- Tausug (ISO code tsg) is an Austronesian language spoken on the island of Jolo in the southwestern Philippines. It is also found on other nearby islands in the southwestern part of the Philippines and in parts of Sabah, Malaysia, where it is called Suluk.
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ISO 639-3: tsg. The combined catalog of all OLAC participants contains the following resources that are relevant to this language: Other known names and dialect names: Bahasa Sug, Joloano, Joloano Sulu, Moro, Moro Joloano, Sinug, Sooloo, Sulu, Suluk, Taosug, Tausog, Taw Sug.
Jolo ( Tausug: Sūg) is a volcanic island in the southwest Philippines and the primary island of the province of Sulu, on which the capital of the same name is situated. It is located in the Sulu Archipelago, between Borneo and Mindanao, and has a population of approximately 500,000 people.
- 869 km² (336 sq mi)
- 530,000 (2015)
- 803 m (2635 ft)
- Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao
The majority of Jolo's people are Tausugs – the ethnic group that dominates the Sulu Archipelago. Tausug derives from the words tau meaning “man” and sug meaning “current”, which translates to “ people of the current”, because they were known to be seafarers with military and merchant skills.
- 70 m (230 ft)
- 7.4K
- 1952
- Philippines
ETHNONYMS: Joloanos, Jolo Moros, Suluk, Sulu Moros, Sulus, Taw Sug. Orientation. Identification. The Tausug ("people of the current" —tau, "people"; sug, "sea current") are the numerically dominant group in the Sulu Archipelago of the southern Philippines.
'Language of Sulu/the Tausūg people') is an Austronesian language spoken in the province of Sulu in the Philippines and in the eastern area of the state of Sabah, Malaysia as well as in the Nunukan Regency, province of North Kalimantan, Indonesia by the Tausūg people.
- 1.2 million (2010)
Tausug religion is a highly syncretic version of Islam, which was introduced into Jolo by. Arab traders in the late thirteenth century according to traditional accounts, although Beyer's date is 1430. A written tradition of religious literature. exists, based on a Malay-Arabic script.
Dec 2, 2007 · Intensive Tausug: A pedagogical grammar of the language of Jolo, Philippines. Springfield, VA: Dunwoody Press. xv + 419 ISBN 1-931546-17-7. $55.00. This book is intended as a learner's manual for Tausug, a language spoken in parts of the Sulu Archipelago, Philippines.
