The Southern Sama of Philippines, numbering approximately 214,000 people, are Engaged yet Unreached. They are described as an ethnolinguistic subgroup of the Sama, an Austronesian ethnic group indigenous to the Sulu Archipelago islands within the Mindanao region of the Philippines They are an Indigenous people, with Sama (Filipino) as their ethnic/kinship group and are in the Filipino, Muslim people cluster of the Malay Peoples. Their primary religion is Sunni Islam. They primarily speak Sama, Southern.