| Bajaw | |
|---|---|
| Bajo | |
| Spoken in | Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines |
| Region | coastal areas of the Sulu Sea, Sulawesi, and the Maluku Islands |
| Ethnicity | Bajau |
| Native speakers | 250,000 (2000–2007) |
| Language family | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | variously: bdl – Sulawesi bdr – Sabah West Coast sjm – Mapun |
Bajaw is the language of the Bajaw 'Sea Gypsies' of Maritime Southeast Asia. Differences exist between the language's varieties in western Sabah, Cagayan in the southern Philippines (= Mapun Bajaw/Sama), eastern Sabah, and Sulawesi/Maluku, but it is not clear how many languages these would be based on mutual intelligibility.