Mapun
PrintA language of Philippines
ISO 639-3
Alternate Names
Bajau Kagayan, Cagayan, Cagayan de Sulu, Cagayanen, Cagayano, Cagayanon, Jama Mapun, Kagayan, Orang, Sama Mapun
Population
43,000 in Philippines (2011 SIL). 4,000 monolinguals. Population total all countries: 58,000. Ethnic population: 43,000.
Location
Muslim Mindinao autonomous region, Tawi-Tawi, Cagayan de Sulu (Mapun) island. Also in Malaysia.
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Language Status
5 (Developing).
Classification
Typology
VSO; stress is on the penultimate syllable; verbal affixations can mark actor-experiencer, instrument, object-undergoer-patient, beneficiary, location, passive, imperative, abilitative, causative, non-volitional, reciprocal, multiple actors, intransitive, etc; 3 prepositions used primarily to indicate special and temporal relationships
Language Use
Home, neighborhood, work. All ages. Positive attitudes. Also use some Tausug [tsg].
Language Development
Literacy rate in L1: 65%–70%. Literacy rate in L2: 30% in English; 60% in Tausug [tsg]. Many older women are illiterate. Used some at school. Poetry. Videos. Dictionary. Bible portions: 1979–1998.
Language Resources
Writing
Latin script.
The center of the ethnic group is on Mapun island (pop. 20,000), also known as Cagayan de Sulu, Cagayan Sulu, and Cagayan de Tawi-Tawi. The Mapun people only refer to it as Mapun. Many people from the island go to Sabah, Malaysia to find work. Many have settled there over the past century. There are approximately 15,000 Mapun people in Malaysia. There are approximately 5,000 to 10,000 Mapun people on the island of Palawan in the Philippines. Muslim.