Urak Lawoi' language

Urak Lawoi' is an Aboriginal Malay language of southern Thailand.

Urak Lawoi’
อูรัก ลาโว้ย
Native toThailand
RegionPhuket, Langta islands
EthnicityUrak Lawoi’
Native speakers
5,000 (2012)[1]
Austronesian
Language codes
ISO 639-3urk
Glottologurak1238
ELPUrak Lawoi'[2]

The Orang (Suku) Laut who live between Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula speak divergent Malayic lects, which bear some intriguing connections to various Sumatran Malay varieties.[3]

References

  1. Urak Lawoi’ at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Endangered Languages Project data for Urak Lawoi'.
  3. Anderbeck, Karl (2012). Notes on Malayic Suku Laut Dialectology (abstract) (PDF). ISMIL 16 conference presentation. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2014-07-14. Retrieved 2014-07-02.

Further reading

  • Saengmani, Amon (1979). Phonology of the Urak Lawoi' Language: Adang Island (PDF) (MA thesis). Mahidol University.
  • Hogan, David W. (1976). "Urak Lawoi' (Orang Laut)". In Smalley, William A. (ed.). Phonemes and Orthography: Language Planning in Ten Minority Languages of Thailand. Pacific Linguistics C – 43. Canberra: The Australian National University. pp. 283–302. doi:10.15144/PL-C43. hdl:1885/146593. ISBN 0-85883-144-9.
  • Hogan, David W. (1988). Urak Lawoi': Basic Structures and a Dictionary. Pacific Linguistics Series C No. 109. Canberra: The Australian National University. doi:10.15144/PL-C109. hdl:1885/146628. ISBN 0-85883-385-9.
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