A sketch grammar of Seletar

• Main Author: Tan, Zhi Xuan
• Other Authors: Alexander Coupe
• Format: Thesis-Master by Research
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::Language
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165162
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The thesis presents a sketch grammar of Seletar, the language of the Orang Seletar. The Orang Seletar are one of the many Orang Asli (‘indigenous people’) of Malaysia and one of Singapore’s indigenous sea peoples (Orang Laut). The language is spoken by approximately 2,000 people in Johor Bahru, Mala...