Dialects: Capital City Urban Bangka, Central Bangka, Lom (Belom, Mapor), North Bangka, Port Urban Bangka, South Bangka. A member of macrolanguage Malay ,.
Genealogy:
Demographics: 340,000 (2000 census). 50 or less speakers of the Lom dialect (Wurm 2007).
Language Use: Lom dialect seriously endangered or moribund (2000 S. Wurm).
Nation of Origin: Indonesia
Other Comments: A network of dialects with distinct lexical, phonological, and grammatical innovations set Bangka apart from other Malay speech varieties. Muslim, traditional religion.