Bajaw language

Bajaw
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); (may be ethnic population)
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Sama–Bajaw Bajaw; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	Variously:; bdl – Sulawesi; bdr – Sabah West Coast; sjm – Mapun
Glottolog	born1254

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.

References

^ Sulawesi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Sabah West Coast at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Mapun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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[e18-1] Sulawesi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Sabah West Coast at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
Mapun at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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