TheOrang Laut language orLoncong, is one of theMalayic languages. It is one of several native languages ofOrang Laut ('Sea People') of theBangka andBelitung islands inIndonesia, and may be two distinct languages.

Anderbeck considers there to be an Orang Laut genetic grouping of languages, which includes the Kedah, Riau, and Sekak subgroups. The Malayic languageDuano is divergent, and does not form part of this group.^[2]

• Anderbeck, Karl. 2012.The Malayic-speaking; Orang Laut Dialects and directions for research. Wacana, 14(2): 265-312.
• Blench, Roger. 2016. "The linguistic background to Southeast Asian sea nomadism". InSea nomads of Southeast Asia: past and present. Bérénice Bellina, Roger M. Blench & Jean-Christophe Galipaud eds. Singapore: NUS Press.
• Moseley, Christopher and R. E. Asher, ed.Atlas of the Worlds Languages (New York: Routelage, 1994)

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