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