Nancowry language

E417501

Nancowry language is an Austroasiatic language spoken by the Nicobarese people on Nancowry and nearby islands in India’s Nicobar archipelago.

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All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Nancowry language canonical 3

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Austroasiatic language
Nicobarese language
natural language
country India
ethnicity Nicobarese
family Austroasiatic
glottologCode nanc1240
glottologName Nancowry
hasAlternativeName Nancoury NERFINISHED
Nankwari
hasDialects Nancowry dialects
hasLinguisticResearch descriptive grammars
lexicographic work
phonological studies
hasMorphologicalType agglutinative
hasNeighboringLanguages Nicobarese
surface form: Car Nicobarese

Nicobarese
surface form: Teressa Nicobarese
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive nasalization
rich consonant inventory
hasTypologicalFeature complex pronominal system
rich system of verbal affixes
hasUsageDomain home communication
oral storytelling
traditional cultural practices
hasWordOrder SVO
isEndangered true
isMinorityLanguageIn India
iso639-3 ncb
isPartOf Nicobarese languages
surface form: Central Nicobarese subgroup
isRecognizedAs scheduled tribal language at local level
isRelatedTo Car language
Nicobarese languages
surface form: Central Nicobarese languages
isSpokenByReligiousCommunities Animist Nicobarese
Christian Nicobarese
isSpokenOn Nancowry Islands
surface form: Nancowry group of islands
isThreatenedBy language shift to English
language shift to Hindi
language shift to other Nicobarese varieties
languageFamilyBranch Mon-Khmer
surface form: Mon–Khmer
region Nicobar Islands
script Latin script
spokenBy Nicobarese
surface form: Nicobarese people
spokenIn Kamorta Island NERFINISHED
Nancowry Islands
surface form: Nancowry Island

neighboring islands of central Nicobar
subfamily Nicobarese

Referenced by (3)

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

Nicobarese languages languageFamilyOf Nancowry language
Katchal relatedTo Nancowry language
Nancowry Islands indigenousLanguage Nancowry language