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Orang Seletar (Slitar) is a language of the Orang Laut of the south coast of the Malay Peninsula.[1] 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 critically endangered by UNESCO.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Orang Seletar at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon
  2. ^ a b "Orang Seletar". UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in danger. UNESCO. Retrieved 2018-04-07.
  3. ^ Kruspe (2004), p. 29

Sources

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