The Orang Laut language or Loncong, is one of the
Malayic languages. It is one of several native languages of
Orang Laut ('Sea People') of the
Bangka and
Belitung islands in
Indonesia, 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.
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)
The Orang Laut language or Loncong, is one of the
Malayic languages. It is one of several native languages of
Orang Laut ('Sea People') of the
Bangka and
Belitung islands in
Indonesia, 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.
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)