Urak Lawoi' language
Urak Lawoi' is an Aboriginal Malay language of southern Thailand.
| Urak Lawoi’ | |
|---|---|
| อูรัก ลาโว้ย | |
| 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 |
| ELP | Urak 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
- Urak Lawoi’ at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Endangered Languages Project data for Urak Lawoi'.
- 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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