Loncong language

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Loncong
Orang Laut
Native to	Indonesia
Region	Bangka and Belitung islands
Native speakers	420 (2000)^[1]
Language family	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian (MP) Nuclear MP Malayic Malayan Loncong
Language codes
ISO 639-3	`lce`

The Orang Laut language, Loncong, is one of the Malay languages. It is one of several native languages of Orang Laut ("Sea People") of the Bangka and Belitung islands in Indonesia, and in fact may be two languages itself.

References

↑ Loncong reference at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)

Sources

Moseley, Christopher and R. E. Asher, ed. Atlas of the Worlds Languages (New York: Routelage, 1994)

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