Bajaw language

Bajaw
Bajo
Native to Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines
Region coastal areas of the Sulu Sea, Sabah, Sulawesi, and the Maluku Islands
Ethnicity Bajau
Native speakers
 260,000 (2000–2011)[1]
(may be ethnic population)
Language codes
ISO 639-3 Variously:
bdl – Sulawesi
bdr – Sabah West Coast
sjm – Mapun
Glottolog born1254[2]

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.

Distribution

West Coast Bajau is distributed in the following locations of Sabah, Malaysia (Ethnologue).

Indonesian Bajau is widely distributed throughout Sulawesi and Nusa Tenggara. It is also located throughout Maluku Utara Province in the Bacan Islands, Obi Islands, Kayoa, and Sula Islands, which are located to the southwest of Halmahera Island (Ethnologue).

Mapun is spoken on Cagayan de Sulu (Mapun) island, Tawi-Tawi, Philippines.

Population

Ethnologue lists the following population statistics for Bajaw.

Dialects

Ethnologue lists the following Bajaw dialects. Locations and demographics are from Palleson (1985).

Together, West Coast Bajau, Indonesian Bajau, and Mapun comprise a Borneo Coast Bajaw branch in Ethnologue.

References

  1. ↑ Sulawesi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Sabah West Coast at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
    Mapun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Borneo Coast Bajaw". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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