Orang Seletar language

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]

Orang Seletar
Native to	Malaysia, Singapore
Ethnicity	Orang Seletar
Native speakers	1,200 (2018)[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Malayic Malay? Orang Seletar
Writing system	Unwritten
Language codes
ISO 639-3	ors
Glottolog	oran1259
ELP	Orang Seletar
Orang Seletar is classified as Critically Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger [2]

References

1. Orang Seletar at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
2. "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.