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Tausug (Bahasa Sūg / بَهَسَ سُوگ)
Native to: Philippines, Malaysia
Region: Spoken throughout the Sulu Archipelago and eastern Sabah. Also spoken in Zamboanga City
Ethnicity: Tausūg people, Filipinos in Malaysia
Native speakers: 1.1 million (2000)
Language family: Austronesian

Tausūg is spoken by about 1 million people in parts of the Philippines, in Malaysia, and in Indonesia, particularly on the Sulu Archipelago, the Zamboanga Peninsula, Southern Palawan in the Philippines, in Sabah in Malaysia, and in Kalimantan in Indonesia.

Tausūg a member of the Visayan branch of Central Philippine languages, which is part of Malayo-Polynesian language family. Tausūg is closely related to the Butuanon language of northeastern Mindanao.

The name of the language in Tausūg is Bahasa Sūg, which means language of the Sūg where Sūg is taken to mean the area in which it is spoken (ie. Sulu). The word Tausūg is the name used colloquially where Tau means 'person' and hence Tausūg means 'person of Sūg' (Sulu).

These days Tausūg is written with the Latin alphabet, but used to be written with a version of the Arabic alphabet based on the Malaysian Jawi script.