Urak Lawoi’ language
| Urak Lawoi’ | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Thailand |
| Region | Phuket, Langta islands |
| Ethnicity | Urak Lawoi’ |
Native speakers | 5,000 (2012)[1] |
|
Austronesian
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
urk |
| Glottolog |
urak1238[2] |
Urak Lawoi’ is an Aboriginal Malay language of southern Thailand.
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
- ↑ Urak Lawoi’ at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Urak Lawoi'". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
- ↑ Anderbeck, Karl (2012). "Notes on Malayic Suku Laut dialectology". ISMIL 16 conference presentation.