Orang Seletar language

Orang Seletar
Orang Seletar
Native to	Malaysia, Singapore
Ethnicity	Orang Seletar
Native speakers	1,500
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Malayic Malay? Orang Seletar; ; ; ;
Writing system	Unwritten
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ors
Glottolog	oran1259

Orang Seletar (Slitar) is a language of the Orang Laut of the south coast of the Malay Peninsula.^[2] It is very close to Malay, and may be counted as a dialect of that language.^[3] The speaking population is unknown, but is likely in the range of a few thousand. The language is considered severely endangered by UNESCO.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b "Orang Seletar". UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger. UNESCO. Retrieved 2018-04-07.
^ Orang Seletar language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Kruspe (2004), p. 29

Kruspe, Nicole (2004). A Grammar of Semelai. Cambridge Grammatical Descriptions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-81497-9.

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[UNESCO-1] "Orang Seletar". UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger. UNESCO. Retrieved 2018-04-07.

[eth-2] Orang Seletar language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[3] Kruspe (2004), p. 29

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Orang Seletar language

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