Orang Seletar language

Orang Seletar
Native to Malaysia, Singapore
Language codes
ISO 639-3 ors
Glottolog oran1259[1]

Orang Seletar (Slitar) is a language of sea nomads 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.

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Orang Seletar". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
  2. ↑ Orang Seletar language at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  3. ↑ Nicole Kruspe, 2004. A Grammar of Semelai. P. 29.


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