Southern Nicobarese is a
Nicobarese language, spoken on the Southern
Nicobar Islands of
Little Nicobar (Ong),
Great Nicobar
Great Nicobar is the southernmost and largest of the Nicobar Islands of India, north of Sumatra.
History
The Nicobar Island has been well known to Indian mariners since the time of the seafaring Cholas https://www.britannica.com/place/Nicoba ...
(Lo'ong), and a couple small neighboring islands,
Kondul (Lamongshe) and
Pulo Milo (Milo Island). Each is said to have its own dialect.
Distribution
Parmanand Lal (1977:23)
[Lal, Parmanand. 1977. ''Great Nicobar Island: study in human ecology''. Calcutta: Anthropological Survey of India, Govt. of India.] reported 11 Nicobarese villages with 192 people in all, located mostly along the western coast of
Great Nicobar Island
Great Nicobar is the southernmost and largest of the Nicobar Islands of India, north of Sumatra.
History
The Nicobar Island has been well known to Indian mariners since the time of the seafaring Cholas https://www.britannica.com/place/Nicobar- ...
. Pulo-babi village was the site of Lal's extensive ethnographic study.
*Pulo-kunyi
*Kopenhaiyen
*Kashindon
*Koye
*Pulo-babi
*Batadiya
*Kakaiyu
*Pulo-pucca
*Ehengloy
*Pulo-baha
*Chinge
Lal (1977:104) also reported the presence of several
Shompen
The Shompen or Shom Pen are the indigenous people of the interior of Great Nicobar Island, part of the Indian union territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
The Shompen are a designated Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, Scheduled Tribe.
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villages in the interior of Great Nicobar Island.
*Dakade (10 km northeast of Pulo-babi, a Nicobarese village; 15 persons and 4 huts)
*Puithey (16 km southeast of Pulo-babi)
*Tataiya (inhabited by the Dogmar River Shompen group, who had moved from Tataiya to Pulo-kunyi between 1960 and 1977)
Vocabulary
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. Sidwell, who is also an expert and consultant in forensic linguistics, is most notab ...
(2017)
[Sidwell, Paul. 2017.]
Proto-Nicobarese Phonology, Morphology, Syntax: work in progress
. International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics 7, Kiel, Sept 29-Oct 1, 2017. published in ICAAL 2017 conference on Nicobarese languages.
See also
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Shompen language
Shompen, or Shom Peng is a language or group of languages spoken on Great Nicobar Island in the Indian union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, in the Indian Ocean, northwest of Sumatra, Indonesia.
Partially because the native peopl ...
, also spoken on Great Nicobar
References
Languages of India
Nicobarese languages
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