Malaysia, they number around 300,000 and 12,000 (1981 estimate) in Indonesia. [1]  Tausug also speak  Zamboangueño  Chavacano , other  Visayan languages , and  Tagalog  in the Philippines;  Malay  in the Philippines, Malaysia and Indonesia; and  English  in both Malaysia and Philippines as second languages. Malaysian Tausūg, descendants of residents when the  Sulu Sultanate