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
- ↑ Sulawesi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Sabah West Coast at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Mapun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) - ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Borneo Coast Bajaw". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
|
|
|
|
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, September 27, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.