Orang Seletar

Orang Seletar, also known as Slitar or Seletar, is a language of the Orang Laut of the south coast of the Malay Peninsula. It is very close to Malay, and may be counted as a dialect of that language. The speaking population is unknown, but is likely in the range of a few thousand. The language is considered critically endangered by UNESCO. Currently, older generations communicate with each other exclusively or mainly in Seletar, but younger generations and people living outside the community are more likely to use Malay. Few Seletar people teach their mother tongue to their own children; this, combined with other factors such as diminishing seafood catches has led the younger generations to urbanise and shift languages.

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