Urak Lawoi' language
Urak Lawoi’ is an Aboriginal Malay language of southern Thailand.
| Urak Lawoi’ | |
|---|---|
| อูรัก ลาโว้ย | |
| Native to | Thailand |
| Region | Phuket, Langta islands |
| Ethnicity | Urak Lawoi’ |
Native speakers | 5,000 (2012)[1] |
Austronesian
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | urk |
| Glottolog | urak1238[2] |
The Orang (Suku) Laut who live between Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula speak divergent Malayic lects, which bear some intriguing connections to various Sumatran Malay varieties.[3]
References
- Urak Lawoi’ at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Urak Lawoi'". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- Anderbeck, Karl (2012). "Notes on Malayic Suku Laut dialectology". ISMIL 16 conference presentation.
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