The Orang (Suku) Laut who live between Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula speak divergent Malayic lects, which bear some intriguing connections to various Sumatran Malay varieties.

[2] Notes: In the Thai script, the left column represents diacritics for open syllables, while the right one for closed syllables.

Any vowels with separate closed syllable diacritics have an inherent value of /-ʔ/ when not used with a succeeding consonant.

Urak Lawoiʼ does not have tones, except in Thai loans.

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