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Also spelled:
Tau Sug or Tausog
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Joloano, Sulu, or Suluk
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Tausug, one of the largest of the Muslim (sometimes called Moro) ethnic groups of the southwestern Philippines. They live primarily in the Sulu Archipelago, southwest of the island of Mindanao, mainly in the Jolo island cluster. There are, however, significant migrant (or immigrant) communities of Tausug in Malaysia and Indonesia, particularly on the northeastern coast of the island of Borneo. In the early 21st century the Tausug in the Philippines numbered roughly 900,000; in Malaysia they totalled about 200,000, and in Indonesia they amounted to nearly 20,000. Land is traditionally owned by the clan and controlled by local leaders known ...(100 of 210 words)

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