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What does Tausug mean?

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Proper noun
  1. A Visayan language (Malayo-Polynesian) spoken mainly in Sulu province in the Philippines.
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The hostage-takers were speaking the Filipino language of Tausug, officials said.
Renato and Michelle Rosaldo dealt with it extensively in their study of the Ilongot but Dumont ignores their work, as he does Kiefer's discussion of violence among the Tausug.
Dominated by members from the Tausug, Yakan and Sama tribe, the Abu Sayyaf in Sulu has been engaged in high-profile kidnappings over the past two decades.
The people in the Southern part of Philippines, built the same wooden palaces such as langgal of Tausug.
Philippines defence secretary Orlando Mercado said that the kidnappers were Filipinos speaking Tausug, a dialect used in the Mindanao region of the southern Philippines.
Baloi Maranao Selection beat Hammadi Tausug Selection 79-65 in the battle for third place.

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