Tausug is primarily spoken in the Sulu Archipelago, which aside from the island of Sulu, also includes the Tawi-Tawi chain of islands and the island of Basilan. In the past, the language has also been simply referred to using the generic term 'Moro'. Meanwhile, a similar sounding word 'sug', which means 'water-current', has been given by a number of writers as the etymologic source of the term the two words, even if similarly pronounced, are not related. Several scholars postulate that 'Sūlūk' derives from 'Ahl ul-Sūlūk', or 'people of the path (to Allah),' in reference to the Islamic missionaries who arrived to spread the religion of Islam. Thus, in Tausug, Tausug refers to people while Bahasa Sug refers to the language. The term Tausūg ( tau Sūg, meaning 'people of Sulu') is derived from two words: tau ('person') and Sūg (The transformation of 'Sūk', itself the contraction of Sūlūk ). The local name of the language is bahasa Sūg (Sulu language). In English, the language is primarily known as Tausug (i.e., Tausug language 'language of the Tausug people'). Many Malay and Arabic words are found in Bahasa Sūg. Tausug has some lexical similarities or near similarities with Surigaonon language of the provinces Surigao del Norte, Surigao del Sur and Agusan del Sur and with the Butuanon language of Agusan del Norte it has also some vocabulary similarities with Sugbuanon, Bicolano and with other Philippine languages. It is widely spoken in the Sulu Archipelago (Sulu, Tawi-Tawi, Basilan), the Zamboanga Peninsula ( Zamboanga del Norte, Zamboanga Sibugay, Zamboanga del Sur and Zamboanga City), southern Palawan and Malaysia (eastern Sabah). Tausug ( Jawi: بَهَسَ سُوگ‎ Bahasa Sūg Malay: Bahasa Suluk) is an Austronesian language spoken in the province of Sulu in the Philippines and in the eastern area of the state of Sabah, Malaysia, by the Tausūg people. For an introductory guide on IPA symbols, see Help:IPA. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols instead of Unicode characters. This article contains IPA phonetic symbols. Areas where Tausug is the majority language

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