Bajaw language

Bajaw
Bajo
Native to Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines
Region coastal areas of the Sulu Sea, Sulawesi, and the Maluku Islands
Ethnicity Bajau
Native speakers
260,000 (2000–2011)[1]
(may be ethnic population)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
bdl  Sulawesi
bdr  Sabah West Coast
sjm  Mapun
Glottolog born1254[2]

Bajaw is the language of the Bajaw 'Sea Gypsies' of Maritime Southeast Asia. Differences exist between the language's varieties in western Sabah, Cagayan in the southern Philippines (= Mapun Bajaw/Sama), eastern Sabah, and Sulawesi/Maluku, but it is not clear how many languages these would be based on mutual intelligibility.

References

  1. Sulawesi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Sabah West Coast at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Mapun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Borneo Coast Bajaw". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.


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