Editing Tausug language (section)

==Nomenclature==
In English, the language is primarily known as Tausug (i.e., Tausug language "language of the Tausug people"). The local name of the language is ''bahasa Sūg'' (Sulu language). The term Tausūg ({{lang|tsg|tau Sūg}}, meaning "people of Sulu") is derived from two words: ''tau'' ("person") and ''Sūg''<ref name="haskins">{{Cite book |last=Haskins |first=Jim |title=The Filipino Nation: The Philippines: Lands and Peoples, a Cultural Geography |date=1982 |publisher=Grolier International |isbn=9780717285099 |page=190 |language=en}}</ref> (The transformation of "Sūk", itself the contraction of Sūlūk<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tausug |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tausug |access-date=2020-12-03 |website=[[Encyclopedia Britannica]] |language=en}}</ref>). <!--Or, Tausug could also mean "strong people" from the word "tau" means – people, "sug" from the word " kusug – strong.--> Thus, in Tausug, ''Tausug'' refers to people while ''Bahasa Sūg'' refers to the language. Several scholars postulate that "Sūlūk" derives from "Ahl ul-Sūlūk", or "people of the path (to Allah)," in reference to the Islamic missionaries who arrived to spread the religion of Islam.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hamsain |first=AbdulAziz H. |date=2016-06-27 |title=The Journey of a Tausug Doctor |url=https://www.tausugonline.com/docbenjbangahan.htm |access-date=2020-12-03 |website=TausugOnline |language=en}}</ref> Meanwhile, a similar sounding word "sug", which means "water-current", has been given by a number of writers as the etymologic source of the term; the two words, even if similarly pronounced, are not related.<ref name="Bangahan2015">{{Cite web |last=Bangahan |first=Benjamin S. |date=2015 |title=English-Bahasa Sūg Dictionary |url=https://shop.vibalgroup.com/products/english-bahasa-sug-dictionary |location=Vibal Publishing House}}</ref> In the past, the language has also been simply referred to using the generic term "Moro".<ref>{{Cite report |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hDniQDWN7FAC |title=Report of the Philippine Commission to the President |last=Philippine Commission |date=1901 |publisher=Government Printing Office |location=Washington |language=en |quote=Nevertheless, anyone who knows Visaya will note the moment that he studies the Moro language of Sulu that...}}</ref>