Pangutaran Sama language

Bahasa Pangutaran Siyama, also known as Siyama. (e.g: Daa busung, bang manjari niyama ja na ko/kau boh/ampa kita maghati "Excuse me, can you please speak siyama that we are both able to understand one another) and the word phrase "Niyama" is a Siyama transitive verb while the word "Pangutaran" is a noun and the name after "Shariff Pangutaran" the first Filipino people who discover and inhabited the island together with the family members (Belong to Salip Descendants), but before the island called PANGUTARAN what we know today, it's also been called "Pulau Bangkuruan" by Malay speakers means The island with the Bankudo tree(s) (Morinda citrifolia). Pangutaran Siyama is the language of the Siyama people (Siyama Al-Pangutaran or Siyamal) of the Sulu Archipelago. It is not quite intelligible with other varieties of Samal-Bajau.

Bahasa Pangutaran Siyama
Siyama
Siyama Al-Pangutaran
Native toPhilippines
RegionPangutaran Island (Sulu Islands) and surrounding areas
EthnicitySiyama Al-Pangutaran or Siyamal
Native speakers
35,000 (2000)[1]
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3slm
Glottologpang1291

References

  1. Bahasa Pangutaran Siyama at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)


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