Nicobarese

E16139
Austroasiatic language language group natural language

Nicobarese is an Austroasiatic language (or group of related languages) traditionally spoken by the indigenous Nicobarese people of India’s Nicobar Islands.

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Observed surface forms (10)

Surface form Occurrences
Nicobarese people 11
Central Nicobarese 3
Nicobarese language 2

Statements (45)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austroasiatic language ⓘ
language group ⓘ
natural language ⓘ
belongsTo Indo-Pacific linguistic area ⓘ
continent Asia ⓘ
country India ⓘ
ethnicity Nicobarese self-link ⓘ
family Austroasiatic ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Nicobarese languages ⓘ
Nicobar Islands ⓘ
surface form: Nicobari
hasDialect Car Nicobar ⓘ
surface form: Car Nicobarese

Nicobarese self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Central Nicobarese

Chowra ⓘ
Katchal ⓘ
Little Nicobar ⓘ
Nancowry ⓘ
Nicobarese languages ⓘ
surface form: Southern Nicobarese

Teressa ⓘ
hasWritingSystem Devanagari script ⓘ
Latin script ⓘ
Tamil script ⓘ
isIndigenousTo Nicobar Islands ⓘ
iso639FamilyCode nicobarese ⓘ
isOfficialIn none ⓘ
isPartOf Mon-Khmer ⓘ
surface form: Mon–Khmer languages
languageStatus vulnerable ⓘ
macroArea South Asia ⓘ
neighboringLanguage Bengali ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ
Shompen ⓘ
Tamil ⓘ
primaryReligionOfSpeakers Animism ⓘ
Christianity ⓘ
region Bay of Bengal ⓘ
spokenBy Nicobarese self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Nicobarese people
spokenIn India ⓘ
Nicobar Islands ⓘ
subfamily Mon-Khmer ⓘ
surface form: Nuclear Mon–Khmer
subgroup Nicobarese languages ⓘ
threatenedBy language shift to English ⓘ
language shift to Hindi ⓘ
language shift to Tamil ⓘ
usedFor daily communication ⓘ
oral tradition ⓘ
rituals and ceremonies ⓘ

Referenced by (33)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Nancowry → closelyRelatedTo → Nicobarese ⓘ
this entity surface form: Katchal Nicobarese
Nancowry → closelyRelatedTo → Nicobarese ⓘ
this entity surface form: Teressa Nicobarese
Car Nicobar → ethnicGroup → Nicobarese ⓘ
Little Nicobar → ethnicGroup → Nicobarese ⓘ
this entity surface form: Nicobarese people
this entity surface form: Nicobarese (migrants)
Nicobar Islands → ethnicGroup → Nicobarese ⓘ
this entity surface form: Nicobarese people
Nicobarese → ethnicity → Nicobarese self-link ⓘ
Nicobarese languages → ethnicity → Nicobarese ⓘ
this entity surface form: Nicobarese people
Nicobarese → hasDialect → Nicobarese self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Central Nicobarese
this entity surface form: Nicobarese people
this entity surface form: Nicobarese people
this entity surface form: Nicobarese people
Austroasiatic → hasLanguage → Nicobarese ⓘ
Austroasiatic → hasLanguage → Nicobarese ⓘ
this entity surface form: Nicobarese branch
Austroasiatic → hasLanguage → Nicobarese ⓘ
this entity surface form: Nicobarese language
Campbell Bay town → hasLanguage → Nicobarese ⓘ
subject surface form: Campbell Bay
this entity surface form: Christian Nicobarese
Nicobarese languages → hasSubgroup → Nicobarese ⓘ
this entity surface form: Central Nicobarese
Nicobar Islands → indigenousPeople → Nicobarese ⓘ
this entity surface form: Nicobarese people
Andaman Islands → language → Nicobarese ⓘ
this entity surface form: Nicobarese (in some areas)
Port Blair → language → Nicobarese ⓘ
this entity surface form: Nicobarese (as minority language)
Nicobar Islands → localLanguage → Nicobarese ⓘ
Shompen → neighboringGroups → Nicobarese ⓘ
Car Nicobar → primaryLanguage → Nicobarese ⓘ
this entity surface form: Nicobarese language
Austroasiatic → spokenBy → Nicobarese ⓘ
this entity surface form: Nicobarese people
Nancowry → spokenBy → Nicobarese ⓘ
this entity surface form: Nicobarese people
Nicobarese → spokenBy → Nicobarese self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Nicobarese people
Nicobarese languages → spokenBy → Nicobarese ⓘ
this entity surface form: Nicobarese people
Nancowry → subdivisionOf → Nicobarese ⓘ
this entity surface form: Central Nicobarese