Endangered Languages Project

CLASSIFICATION		Austronesian, Malayo-Polynesian, Malayo-Chamic, Malayic
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		orn
DOWNLOAD		As csv
MORE RESOURCES		OLAC search

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~87
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
87
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Demographic information on the Orang Kanaq is hard to come by. The population of the community is 87 as of 2011, but it is unknown what portion of these people speak Orang Kanaq and what portion have shifted completely to Malay. There may be no speakers left.

		World Oral Literature Project							http://www.oralliterature.org		"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.			34		10-99			Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
3rd	2010	Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger			UNESCO Publishing			Paris	http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas	Christopher Moseley (ed.)	Moseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)	ll_pub		0					Dormant	Malaysia	1.8858,103.9814
	2011	The socioeconomic history of the Orang Kanaq of Johor	47-74			Kajian Malaysia, Journal of Malaysian Studies	29			Mahani Musa	Mahani Musa. 2011. "The Socioeconomic History of the Orang Kanaq of Johor." In Kajian Malaysia, Journal of Malaysian Studies, 29: 47-74.		87	~87		10-99	Demographic information on the Orang Kanaq is hard to come by. The population of the community is 87 as of 2011, but it is unknown what portion of these people speak Orang Kanaq and what portion have shifted completely to Malay. There may be no speakers left.	Malay	Severely Endangered (20 percent certain, based on the evidence available)
16	2009	Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)		M. Paul Lewis	SIL International			Dallas, TX	http://www.ethnologue.com/		Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)	ll_pub	83	?	2003		Ethnic population: 83 (2003 census)			Malaysia;

Orang Kanaq