Pangutaran Sama language
| Pangutaran Sama | |
|---|---|
| Siyama | |
| Native to | Philippines |
| Region | Pangutaran Island (Sulu Islands) and surrounding areas |
| Ethnicity | Sama |
Native speakers | (35,000 cited 2000)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | slm |
| Glottolog | pang1291 |
Pangutaran Sama , also known as Siyama, is an Austronesian language spoken in the Sulu Archipelago of the Philippines. The language belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages.
Classification
[edit]Pangutaran Sama is classified by Karl Alexander Adelaar as a Sama-Bajaw languages, one of the groups of Western Malayo-Polynesian.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Pangutaran Sama at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Adelaar, 2005, p. 15.
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