Pangutaran Sama language

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Pangutaran Sama
Siyama
Native toPhilippines
Region Pangutaran Island (Sulu Islands) and surrounding areas
Ethnicity Sama
Native speakers
(35,000 cited 2000) [1]
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

Pangutaran Sama is classified by Karl Alexander Adelaar as a Sama-Bajaw languages, one of the groups of Western Malayo-Polynesian. [2]

References

  1. Pangutaran Sama at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
  2. Adelaar, 2005, p. 15.