Orang Kanaq language is one of the
Aboriginal Malay languages
The Malayic languages are a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family. The most prominent member is Malay, which is the national language of Brunei, Singapore and Malaysia; it further serves as basis for Ind ...
, grouped under the
Austronesian language family. It is spoken by the Orang Kanaq, one of the 19
Orang Asli
Orang Asli (''lit''. "first people", "native people", "original people", "aborigines people" or "aboriginal people" in Malay) are a heterogeneous indigenous population forming a national minority in Malaysia. They are the oldest inhabitants of ...
groups in Peninsular Malaysia.
A variant of
Malay
Malay may refer to:
Languages
* Malay language or Bahasa Melayu, a major Austronesian language spoken in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei and Singapore
** History of the Malay language, the Malay language from the 4th to the 14th century
** Indonesi ...
, Orang Kanaq is distinct from the dialects spoken by ethnic
Malays living near them.
All members of the Orang Kanaq tribe understand the language; however, its lexicon has been largely influenced by the Malay language.
See also
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Orang Asli
Orang Asli (''lit''. "first people", "native people", "original people", "aborigines people" or "aboriginal people" in Malay) are a heterogeneous indigenous population forming a national minority in Malaysia. They are the oldest inhabitants of ...
*
Austronesian Languages
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Malay Languages
The Malayic languages are a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family. The most prominent member is Malay, which is the national language of Brunei, Singapore and Malaysia; it further serves as basis for Ind ...
*
Aboriginal Malay languages
The Malayic languages are a branch of the Malayo-Polynesian subgroup of the Austronesian language family. The most prominent member is Malay, which is the national language of Brunei, Singapore and Malaysia; it further serves as basis for Ind ...
*
List of endangered languages in Asia
An endangered language is a language that is at risk of falling out of use, generally because it has few surviving speakers. If it loses all of its native speakers, it becomes a dead language. A language may be endangered in one area but show si ...
References
Further reading
*bin Abdul, Omar, 1978. ''The Orang Kanaq of southeastern Johor: a preliminary ethnography'' (No. 7). Social Anthropology Section, School of Comparative Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia.
*bin Abdul, Omar. 1985. "The Diversified Economy of the Orang Kanaq of Southeastern Johor, Malaysia." ''Contributions to Southeast Asian Ethnography'' 4: 31–74.
Languages of Malaysia
Endangered Austronesian languages
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Malayic languages