This article is about the people name Tausug. For their language, see
Tausug language.Suluk redirects here. For the Islamic or Sufi term, see
Sulook. The Tausūg or Suluk people are an ethnic group of the
Philippines and
Malaysia. The term Tausūg was derived from two words tau and sūg (or suluk) meaning "people of the current", referring to their homelands in the
Sulu Archipelago. Sūg and suluk both mean the same thing, with the former being the phonetic evolution in the Philippines of the latter (the L being dropped and thus the two short U's merging into one long U). The Tausūg people in Sabah refer to themselves as Tausūg but refers to their race as Suluk as documented in official documents such as birth certificates in
Sabah,
Malaysia. The Tausūg are part of the wider
Moro ethnic group, who constitute the sixth largest
Filipino ethnic group. They originally had an
independent state known as the
Sulu Sultanate, which once exercised sovereignty over the present day provinces of
Basilan,
Palawan,
Sulu,
Tawi-Tawi, and the eastern part of the
Malaysian state of
Sabah (formerly
North Borneo). Extensive research should be undertaken on this one, Tau Sug, Tao means the people, Sug or Suq' is the Arabic term for marketplace. Since Sulu has been the Trading Center of that Era. The Arab Merchants, just like how they name Manila, must consider this meaning.
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Tausug is a language spoken in the Phillippines, Kalimantan, Indonesia and Malaysia.
The language is: Tausug
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