Tausug - English dictionary: Kabtangan Iban maana (Sulu studies)

Paperback – 1994

Tausug (Tausug: Bahasa Sūg, Malay: Bahasa Suluk) is a regional language spoken in the province of Sulu in the Philippines, in the eastern area of the state of Sabah, Malaysia, and in North Kalimantan, Indonesia by the Tausūg people.

First Edition 1975 complied and edited by Irene U. Hassan, Seymour A. Ashley, Mary L. Ashley, Nurhadan Halud

Second Edition 1994 complied and edited by Irene U. Hassan, Seymour A. Ashley, Mary L. Ashley

INDEX of second edition complied by Malcolm S. Armour

ISBN 9711802422

• Series: Sulu studies
• Paperback: 688 pages
• Publisher: Summer Institute of Linguistics, Manila, Philippines; 2nd edition (1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9711802422
• ISBN-13: 978-9711802424

COVER DESIGN is from a Tausug Pis, the head kerchief worn only by men as a protection from sun and rain. On special occasions when a man dresses in traditional clothing, the Pis is worn draped over the shoulder as a decorative piece.

Contents include:
Orthography
Alphabetization
Grammar Notes
Tausug-English DICTIONARY
Appendix 1 Birds and Flying Insects
Appendix 2 Fish and Swimming Marine Creatures
Appendix 3 Seashells and Seaweeds
Appendix 4 Non-flying animals
Appendix 5 Plants
Appendix 6 Parts of the Body
Appendix 7 Kinds of Confections Served at Special Occasions
Appendix 8 Diseases
English-Tausug INDEX

The Tausūg or Suluk people are an ethnic group of the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia. The Tausūg are part of the wider political identity of Muslims of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan known as the Moro ethnic group, who constitute the third largest ethnic group of Mindanao, Sulu and Palawan.^{[citation needed]} 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, the eastern part of the Malaysian state of Sabah (formerly North Borneo) and North Kalimantan in Indonesia.

Religion

The overwhelming majority of Tausūgs follow Islam, as Islam has been a defining aspect of native Sulu culture ever since Islam spread to the southern Philippines. They follow the traditional Sunni Shafi'i section of Islam, however they retain pre-Islamic religious practices and often practice a mix of Islam and Animism in their adat. A Christian minority exists. During the Spanish occupation, the presence of Jesuit missionaries in the Sulu Archipelago allowed for the conversion of entire families and even tribes and clans of Tausūgs, and other Sulu natives to Roman Catholicism. For example, Azim ud-Din I of Sulu, the 19th sultan of Sulu was converted to Roman Catholicism and baptised as Don Fernando de Alimuddin, however he reverted to Islam in his later life near death.

Most assimilated Filipino celebrities and politicians of Tausūg descent also tend to follow the Christian religion of the majority instead of the religion of their ancestors. For example, Maria Lourdes Sereno, the 24th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines is of patrilineal Tausūg descent is a born-again Christian. Singer Sitti is of Tausūg and Samal descent (she claims to be of Mapun heritage, also native to Sulu), is also a Christian. Other Tausugs who migrated to other provinces where Christian customs and observances are vibrant and no significant presence of other Muslim groups (especially if there's no standing mosques and Islamic centers of learning) embraced Catholic faith and have assimilated with the people of host provinces.