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Nicobarese languages
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- "Nicobarese" redirects here. For the indigenous peoples, see Nicobar Islands.
The Nicobarese languages form an isolated group of six closely-related Mon-Khmer languages from the Austro-Asiatic language family, which are spoken by the indigenous inhabitants of the Nicobar Islands of India. They have a total of about 30,000 speakers (22,100 native). The majority of Nicobarese speakers use the Car language.
The morphological similarities between Nicobarese languages and Austronesian languages have been used to help support the Austric hypothesis.
A monograph titled "A study on the Nicobarese Language" authored by A R Das, is available from the Anthropological Survey of India offices across India.
- Chaura
- Teressa
- Bompoka
- Southern Nicobarese (Dialects: Condul, Great Nicobar, Little Nicobar, Milo, Sambelong, Tafwap)
- Central Nicobarese (Dialects: Camorta, Katchal, Nancowry, Trinkut)
- Shom Peng
- Car
- Adams, K. L. (1989). Systems of numeral classification in the Mon-Khmer, Nicobarese and Aslian subfamilies of Austroasiatic. Canberra, A.C.T., Australia: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. ISBN 0858833735
- Radhakrishnan, R. (1981). The Nancowry Word: Phonology, Affixal Morphology and Roots of a Nicobarese Language. Current Inquiry Into Language and Linguistics 37. Linguistic Research Inc., P.O. Box 5677, Station 'L', Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6C 4G1. ISBN 0-88783-041-2
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