Pangutaran Sama language

Pangutaran Sama , also known as Siyama, is an Austronesian language spoken in the Sulu Archipelago of the Philippines. The language belongs to the Malayo-Polynesian branch of the Austronesian languages.

Pangutaran Sama
Siyama
Native to	Philippines
Region	Pangutaran Island (Sulu Islands) and surrounding areas
Ethnicity	Sama
Native speakers	(35,000 cited 2000)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Sama–Bajaw Pangutaran Sama
Language codes
ISO 639-3	slm
Glottolog	pang1291

Classification

Pangutaran Sama is classified by Karl Alexander Adelaar as a Sama-Bajaw languages, one of the groups of Western Malayo-Polynesian.^[2]