Orang Seletar language

Orang Seletar (Slitar) is a language of the Orang Laut of the south coast of the Malay Peninsula.[3] It is very close to Malay, and may be counted as a dialect of that language.[4] The speaking population is unknown, but is likely in the range of a few thousand. The language is considered severely endangered by UNESCO.[1]

Orang Seletar
Native toMalaysia, Singapore
EthnicityOrang Seletar
Native speakers
1,500[1]
Unwritten
Language codes
ISO 639-3ors
Glottologoran1259[2]

References

  1. "Orang Seletar". UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger. UNESCO. Retrieved 2018-04-07.
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Orang Seletar". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  3. Orang Seletar language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  4. Kruspe (2004), p. 29
  • Kruspe, Nicole (2004). A Grammar of Semelai. Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-81497-9.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
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