Southern Nicobarese is a Nicobarese language, spoken on the Southern Nicobar Islands of Little Nicobar (Lamôngsĕ), Great Nicobar (Tökahāṅilā), and small neighboring islands, Kondul and Pulo Milo (Milo Island) each of which have own dialects.
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. Pulo-babi village was the site of Lal's extensive ethnographic study.
Batadiya Chinge Ehengloy Kakaiyu Kashindon Kopenhaiyen Koye Pulo-babi Pulo-baha Pulo-kunyi Pulo-pucca
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)
Vocabulary Paul Sidwell (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.
+ Word Southern Nicobarese proto-Nicobarese hot tait *taɲ four fôat *foan child kōˑan *kuːn lip paṅ-nōˑin *manuːɲ dog âm *ʔam night hatòm *hatəːm male (otāˑha) *koːɲ ear nâng *naŋ one heg *hiaŋ belly wīˑang *ʔac sun hēg - sweet shai(t) -
See also Shompen language, also spoken on Great Nicobar
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