Banguingui people

Banguingui
Total population
84,000[1]
Regions with significant populations
Bangsamoro, Zamboanga Peninsula
Languages
Banguingui language, Tausug, Zamboangueño Chavacano, Cebuano, Filipino, English, Malay
Religion
Predominantly Islam
Related ethnic groups
other Sama-Bajau people, other Moros, Lumad, Visayans,
other Filipino peoples,
other Austronesian peoples
The garay warships of Banguingui pirates in an illustration by Rafael Monleón, based on museum models, c. 1850

Banguingui, also known as Sama Banguingui or Samal Banguingui (alternative spellings include Bangingi’, Bangingi, Banguingui, Balanguingui, and Balangingi) is a distinct ethnolinguistic group native to Balanguingui Island but also dispersed throughout the Greater Sulu Archipelago and southern and western coastal regions of the Zamboanga Peninsula in Mindanao, Philippines. They are one of the ethnic groups usually collectively known as the Sama-Bajau peoples.


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