Sama/Bajau Research

We are proud to announce that for the first time, the Central Sinama to English Dictionary is available for download...

A Question about South Ubian that Site Visitors Often Ask I have relatives (pamikitan) with their roots originating from South...

We want them to be called Badjao, others want Pala'u, what about Sama Dilaut? The topic of this post was resolved...

The participants of the 1st International Conference on the Sama Dilaut I was privileged to be in attendance at the...

On the website Tausug 101, Anak Ilu has been posting wordlists as part of his teaching the Tausug language to...

Aniya' h'lling bagayku ma wordpress site-na buwattitu: "Alungay Bissala, Alanyap na Bangsa." B'nnal h'llingna ilu. Angkanna bang ma aku, bang...

Problems with identifying what language the Badjao speak (For help identifying Sinama languages and dialects please refer to the webmaster's...

The following is a Badjao Swadesh Wordlist collected from a man named Gunani, living on a houseboat near the island...

Lessons learned about Sama & Badjao Diving Badjao diving has received a lot of attention from several documentaries about the...

After decades of study about the Badjao of Tawi-Tawi, Arlo Nimmo concluded in his ethnography Magosaha, that Badjao should no...