Native to Indonesia ISO 639-3 lce | Native speakers 420 (2000) Glottolog lonc1237 | |
Region Bangka and Belitung islands Language family Austronesian
Malayo-Polynesian (MP)
Nuclear MP
Malayic
Malayan
Loncong | ||
The Orang Laut language or Loncong, is one of the Malayan 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.
References
Loncong language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA