Pangutaran Sama language

Pangutaran Sama
Siyama
Native toPhilippines
RegionPangutaran Island (Sulu Islands) and surrounding areas
EthnicitySama
Native speakers
(35,000 cited 2000)[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3slm
Glottologpang1291


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.


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