Tausug Dictionary

This is the app model of the 1994 Edition of the Tausug - English Dictionary: Kabtangan Iban Maana.

The following forward was written by Senator Santanina Rasul and published in the 1994 Edition:

Tausug is a language in addition to the title of an estimated 350,000 people within the Sulu Archipelago*, in southwestern Mindanao and different parts of the Philippines where they have established their domiciles. Some of them have migrated to Sabah in Malaysia.

As a language, Tausug is expounded to other Philippine languages. Many words and expressions have the same meanings as these in Tagalog, Ilocano, and a few of the Visayan languages. However, it has a definite id of its personal of which the Tausug persons are proud.

It is, subsequently, praiseworthy that a Tausug-English dictionary has become a reality. I notice with a lot gratification the scholarly initiatives of the Summer Institute of Linguistics-Philippines, the cooperation of the Department of Education, Culture and Sports, and the monetary help of the former National Science Development Board (now the Department of Science and Technology), the Ford Foundation, and other entities to make it possible for the preliminary version to be published virtually twenty years ago. This second version is a testimony of the earnestness of SIL-Philippines to come up with the updated and improved Tausug-English Dictionary: Kabtangan Iban Maana.

I see this publication as an inter-cultural bridge of understanding between the Tausug culture and other cultures of the world whilst it'll serve to strengthen the cultural heritage of the Tausug. I actually suggest it to be used not solely of the Tausug but additionally these in other elements of the country and elsewhere who desire to have a greater appreciation of the richness and splendor of the Tausug cultural heritage, a worthy a part of Philippine tradition.

* The estimated population of Tausug was 350,000 at the time of the original print publication of the Tausug-English dictionary.