Kris/Sundang just finished on ebay.

[David]

Originally Posted by Battara

The only problem with this term is that the last word "espada" is Spanish, not Maranao. I have never heard this term before, though sundang would not surprise me.

That may well be so José. I first encountered these tribal language differences on Federico's Moro site... http://home.earthlink.net/~federicom...o/diagram.html ... and recently found this on the web. I cannot attest to it's accuracy though

[migueldiaz]

Originally Posted by David

That may well be so José. I first encountered these tribal language differences on Federico's Moro site... http://home.earthlink.net/~federicom...o/diagram.html ... and recently found this on the web. I cannot attest to it's accuracy though

David, thanks for posting the pic. I was actually the one who made that illustration. The references I used were Cato's Moro Swords, and the Summer Institute of Linguistics' (SIL) Tausug-English Dictionary.

One of these days, I'll go down to Maranaw territory and look for a professor who can validate these terminologies. In the meantime, I suppose Cato and SIL are reliable sources. Thus we can rest assured that the terms are ok.