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Nicobarese languages

Index Nicobarese languages

The Nicobarese languages, or Nicobaric languages, form an isolated group of about half a dozen closely related Austroasiatic languages, spoken by the majority of the inhabitants of the Nicobar Islands of India. [1]

18 relations: Austric languages, Austroasiatic languages, Austronesian languages, Camorta language, Car language, Central Nicobarese languages, Chaura language, Great Nicobar Island, India, Indigenous peoples, Katchal language, Nancowry language, Nicobar Islands, Nicobarese, Paul Sidwell, Shompen language, Southern Nicobarese language, Teressa language.

Austric languages

Austric is a large hypothetical grouping of languages primarily spoken in Southeast Asia and Pacific.

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Austroasiatic languages

The Austroasiatic languages, formerly known as Mon–Khmer, are a large language family of Mainland Southeast Asia, also scattered throughout India, Bangladesh, Nepal and the southern border of China, with around 117 million speakers.

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Austronesian languages

The Austronesian languages are a language family that is widely dispersed throughout Maritime Southeast Asia, Madagascar and the islands of the Pacific Ocean, with a few members in continental Asia.

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Camorta language

Camorta (Kamorta) is a Nicobarese language spoken in the central Nicobar Islands.

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Car language

Car is the most widely spoken of the Nicobarese languages spoken in the Nicobar Islands of India.

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Central Nicobarese languages

Central Nicobarese is a group of Nicobarese languages spoken by 10,000 people (as of the 2001 census) on the Nicobar Islands.

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Chaura language

Chaura, or Tutet, is one of the Nicobarese languages spoken on the Nicobar Islands.

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Great Nicobar Island

Great Nicobar is the southernmost and largest of the Nicobar Islands of India, north of Sumatra.

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India

India (IAST), also called the Republic of India (IAST), is a country in South Asia.

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Indigenous peoples

Indigenous peoples, also known as first peoples, aboriginal peoples or native peoples, are ethnic groups who are the pre-colonial original inhabitants of a given region, in contrast to groups that have settled, occupied or colonized the area more recently.

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Katchal language

Katchal (Katchall, Katchál, Kachel), or Tehnu (Tēhnyu),Edward Horace Man, 1889, A dictionary of the central Nicobarese language is a Nicobarese language spoken in the central Nicobar Islands.

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Nancowry language

Nancowry (Nancoury, Nankwari) is a Nicobarese language spoken in the central Nicobar Islands.

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Nicobar Islands

The Nicobar Islands are an archipelagic island chain in the eastern Indian Ocean.

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Nicobarese

The Nicobarese people are an Austroasiatic-speaking people of the Nicobar Islands, a chain of 19 islands in the southeastern Bay of Bengal.

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Paul Sidwell

Paul James Sidwell is an Australian linguist based in Canberra, Australia who has held research and lecturing positions at the Australian National University.

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Shompen language

Shompen (Shom Peng) is a language, or languages, spoken on Great Nicobar Island in the Indian union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean south of Burma.

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Southern Nicobarese language

Southern Nicobarese, is a Nicobarese language, spoken on the Southern Nicobar Islands of Little Nicobar (Ong), Great Nicobar (Lo'ong), and a couple small neighboring islands, Kondul (Lamongshe) and Pulo Milo (Milo Island).

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Teressa language

Teressa, or Taih-Long, is one of the Nicobarese languages spoken on the Nicobar Islands in India.

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Nicobarese language, Nicobaric, Nicobaric languages.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicobarese_languages

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