The Orang Laut language or ''Loncong'', is one of the
Malayic languages. It is one of several native languages of
Orang Laut
The Orang Laut are several seafaring ethnic groups and tribes living around Singapore, peninsular Malaysia and the Indonesian Riau Islands. The Orang Laut are commonly identified as the Orang Seletar from the Straits of Johor, but the term ma ...
('Sea People') of the
Bangka and
Belitung
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islands in
Indonesia
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, and may be two distinct languages.
Anderbeck (2012) considers there to be an Orang Laut genetic grouping of languages, which includes the Kedah, Riau, and Sekak subgroups. The Malayic language
Duano is divergent, and does not form part of this group.
References
Further reading
*Anderbeck, Karl. 2012
The Malayic-speaking; Orang Laut Dialects and directions for research Wacana, 14(2): 265-312.
*Blench, Roger. 2016. "The linguistic background to Southeast Asian sea nomadism". In ''Sea nomads of Southeast Asia: past and present''. Bérénice Bellina, Roger M. Blench & Jean-Christophe Galipaud eds. Singapore: NUS Press.
Sources
* Moseley, Christopher and R. E. Asher, ed. ''Atlas of the Worlds Languages'' (New York: Routelage, 1994)
Languages of Indonesia
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Malayic languages