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219 books about the Bangsamoro and its peoples, with where each can be bought, borrowed or read free.
15 books on language · clear
2013Out of print
Panitikang MëranawSandor B. Abad
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
Maranao legends and tales, in Maranao and Filipino, for the Commission on the Filipino Language.
2011In print
Tausug ReaderWilma A. Amil
Dunwoody Press
Graded Tausug texts with glossaries, for learners who have the grammar.
2009In print
Maranao ReaderJason William Lobel
Dunwoody Press
36 news articles and essays in Maranao, each with an English translation, for learners of the language.
2009In print
Maranao Dialogs and DrillsAlmahdi G. Alonto
Dunwoody Press
Conversational Maranao in dialogues and drills.
2009In print
Maguindanao Grammar SupplementRuth Stickney
Dunwoody Press
A grammar sketch of Maguindanaon for learners.

2005Out of print
Surat SugSamuel K. Tan
National Historical Commission of the Philippines
The Sulu Sultanate’s own correspondence in Jawi, transcribed and translated in two volumes: letters to Spain, Britain and its own datus from the last century of its independence.

2005In print
Intensive TausugCarl R. Galvez Rubino
Dunwoody Press
A full course in Tausug grammar for the serious learner.
2003Out of print
Bokabularyong Maranao–Filipino–EnglishKomisyon sa Wikang Filipino
Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino
A three-way wordlist from the Commission on the Filipino Language.
1995Out of print
Maranao StoriesHoward P. McKaughan
De La Salle University Publishing House
Maranao folktales translated into English, from the linguist who compiled the Maranao dictionary.
1993Out of print
Lexicon of Classical Literary Maranao Words and PhrasesBatua A. Macaraya
Mindanao State University
The old literary Maranao of the darangen and the bayok, glossed by the Maranao scholar who co-wrote the dictionary.
1986Out of print
A Maguindanaon DictionaryRobert E. Sullivan, OMI
Notre Dame University
The fullest Maguindanaon dictionary, by an Oblate missionary at Notre Dame University in Cotabato City.

1975Out of print
Tausug–English DictionaryIrene U. Hassan, Seymour A. Ashley and Mary L. Ashley
Summer Institute of Linguistics, Philippines
The standard Tausug–English dictionary, from the Summer Institute of Linguistics; second edition 1994.

1967In print
A Maranao DictionaryHoward P. McKaughan and Batua A. Macaraya
University of Hawaiʻi Press
The standard Maranao–English dictionary, compiled by an American linguist and a Maranao lexicographer.

1906Free to read
A Grammar of the Maguindanao TongueJacinto Juanmartí, SJ
United States Government Printing Office
Juanmartí’s 1892 grammar translated into English for the American army by Captain C. C. Smith of the 14th Cavalry. Out of copyright and free to read.

1892Free to read
Diccionario Moro-Maguindanao-EspañolJacinto Juanmartí, SJ
Tipografía Amigos del País
The Jesuit mission’s Maguindanaon–Spanish dictionary, the first for the language, compiled at Tamontaka. Out of copyright and free to read.