1937, W. F. Schneeberger, A Short Vocabulary of the Banggai and Bajau Language:

2007, Mark T. Miller, A Grammar of West Coast Bajau, PhD Thesis.

The Bajaus, or sea gypsies, live in boats, their occupation being fishing.

The largest tribe is the 60,000-member Bajau. The Bajaus were once sea nomads and pirates.

The Bajau are a group of seafarers who migrated from the Philippines only a couple hundred years ago. The Bajau on the eastern coast of Sabah carry on their traditional connection to the water, living as sea gypsies and coming to shore only for burials. On the west coast, however, many Bajau have settled on dry land as farmers and cattle raisers.

Bajau

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