Definitions
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- noun A member of an
indigenous ethnic group of the southernPhilippines .
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Examples
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The trip included a village on Mabul populated by several hundred Bajau fishermen, an ethnic group that originally came from the southern Philippines.
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That's the Bajau Horsemen area, so of course one photo has to include a Bajau horseman.
Archive 2007-10-01 Glenda Larke 2007
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That's the Bajau Horsemen area, so of course one photo has to include a Bajau horseman.
Saying goodbye Glenda Larke 2007
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Most of the poachers are the Sea Gypsies Orang Perahu a sub-group of the Bajau Laut peoples.
Poaching Cont'd. The Sea Gypsies... Glenda Larke 2007
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The actual fact was that neither of them exercised any real government or authority over by far the greater portion, the inhabitants of the coast on the various rivers following any Brunai, Illanun, Bajau, or Sulu Chief who had sufficient force of character to bring himself to the front.
British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo 1884
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The Bajau people, sometimes known as the sea gypsies of Malaysia and Indonesia, are renowned natural freedivers.
BBC News - Home 2011
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One part of the Bajau body that hasn't fared well is the ear.
BBC News - Home 2011
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For most of their history, the Bajau have lived on houseboats, or in stilt houses built on coral reefs - some far from shore.
BBC News - Home 2011
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Bajau children's underwater vision is less blurred than landlubbers of the same age
BBC News - Home 2011
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But Sulbin and other Bajau divers have little body fat.
BBC News - Home 2011
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