Teressa, or Taih-Long (native name:
[R. Vysakh. 2019. ''Morphological Sketch of Lurö''. Presented at the 8th International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics (ICAAL8), Chiang Mai, Thailand, August 29-31, 2019.]) is one of the
Nicobarese languages
The Nicobarese languages or Nicobaric languages, form an isolated group of about half a dozen closely related Austroasiatic languages, spoken by most of the inhabitants of the Nicobar Islands of India. They have a total of about 30,000 speakers ...
spoken on the
Nicobar Islands
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in
India
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. Bompoka dialect (Pauhut) is distinct. As of 2001, there are 2,080 speakers.
Teressa belongs to the
Nicobarese branch of the
Austroasiatic languages
The Austroasiatic languages , , are a large language family in Mainland Southeast Asia and South Asia. These languages are scattered throughout parts of Thailand, Laos, India, Myanmar, Malaysia, Bangladesh, Nepal, and southern China and are t ...
in which it forms a subgroup with the
Chaura language.
References
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Languages of India
Nicobarese languages