• Endangered

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 100-999

  Native speakers worldwide
• Ethnic population

  ~235

• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  About 235 group members, in close contact with Kensiu of which it is sometimes considered a dialect.

OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY

• Malay

• other Aslian languages

LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS

Close contact and intermarriage with adjacent Kensiu, Jehai, Lanoh and Temiar; speakers accommodate readily to other Aslian languages and dialects. All speakers also speak Malay.

PLACES

Malaysia

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

Northwest peninsular, around Baling.

• MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS

  160 in Malaysia (2003 COAC), decreasing.

MORE ON VITALITY

decreasing

PLACES

Malaysia; Thailand

LOCATION DESCRIPTION

Kedah-Perak border area, Thai border. Overlaps into South Yala Province, Thailand. Also in Thailand.

• Endangered

  20 percent certain, based on the evidence available

• 220

  Native speakers worldwide