Maps of Sama-Bajaw
Indonesia: Geographic Spread of the Sama-Bajau languages (Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar)
Geographic Spread of the Sama-Bajau Languages
Source:
Adelaar, Alexander and Himmelmann, Nikolaus P (eds.). 2005. The Austronesian languages of Asia and Madagascar, 457. New York: Routledge.
Map Description:
Sama-Bajau speakers comprise what is arguably the most widely dispersed ethnolinguistic group indigenous to insular Southeast Asia. It is estimated that there are between 750 000 and 900 000 speakers of Sama-Bajau in Southeast Asia. Although a comprehensive survey has never been conducted in Indonesia it is estimated that Sama-Bajau speakers number between 150 000 and 230 000.
Sea-nomadic and much more numerous strand and settled Sama speakers live scattered, and in most areas interspersed with one another, over a vast maritime zone 3.25 million square kilometers in extent, stretching from eastern Palawan, Samar, and coastal Mindanao in the north, through the Sulu Archipelago of the Philippines, to the northern and eastern coasts of Borneo, southward through the Straits of Makassar to Sulawesi, and from there over widely dispersed areas of eastern Indonesia (Sather 1997: 2).
Map Description:
Sama-Bajau speakers comprise what is arguably the most widely dispersed ethnolinguistic group indigenous to insular Southeast Asia. It is estimated that there are between 750 000 and 900 000 speakers of Sama-Bajau in Southeast Asia. Although a comprehensive survey has never been conducted in Indonesia it is estimated that Sama-Bajau speakers number between 150 000 and 230 000.
Sea-nomadic and much more numerous strand and settled Sama speakers live scattered, and in most areas interspersed with one another, over a vast maritime zone 3.25 million square kilometers in extent, stretching from eastern Palawan, Samar, and coastal Mindanao in the north, through the Sulu Archipelago of the Philippines, to the northern and eastern coasts of Borneo, southward through the Straits of Makassar to Sulawesi, and from there over widely dispersed areas of eastern Indonesia (Sather 1997: 2).
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