Southern Nicobarese language
| Southern Nicobarese | |
|---|---|
| Sambelong | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Little Nicobar, Great Nicobar |
Native speakers | 7,500 (2001 census)[1] |
Austroasiatic
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| Dialects |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | nik |
| Glottolog | sout2689 |
| ELP | Southern Nicobarese |
  Southern Nicobarese Location in the Bay of Bengal. | |
| Coordinates: 6°50′N 93°48′E / 6.83°N 93.80°E | |
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). Each is said to have its own dialect.
Distribution
Parmanand Lal (1977:23)[2] reported 11 Nicobarese villages with 192 people in all, located mostly along the western coast of Great Nicobar Island. 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 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)
See also
- Shompen language, also spoken on Great Nicobar
References
- ^ Southern Nicobarese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Lal, Parmanand. 1977. Great Nicobar Island: study in human ecology. Calcutta: Anthropological Survey of India, Govt. of India.