nicobarese (family)

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Nicobarese is a small Austroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Nicobar Islands of India.

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nicobarese (family) canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austroasiatic language family
language family
branchOf Austroasiatic
country India
endangeredStatus vulnerable
ethnicity Nicobarese people
linked to: Nicobarese
geneticRelation Mon-Khmer languages
linked to: Mon-Khmer
hasAlternativeName Nicobarese languages
Nicobaric
hasGlottologCode nico1260
hasLexicalInfluenceFrom Bengali
English
Hindi
Tamil
hasMorphologicalFeature limited inflection
hasPart Camorta language
Car language
Central Nicobarese languages
Chowra language
Katchal language
Nancowry language
Northern Nicobarese languages
Southern Nicobarese language
Teressa language
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich consonant inventory
hasSubgroup Car-Nancowry subgroup
Central Nicobarese subgroup
Northern Nicobarese subgroup
Southern Nicobarese subgroup
hasWritingSystem Devanagari script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Tamil script
ISOClassification Austroasiatic, Nicobarese branch
languageFamilyOf Nicobarese languages
languageStatus minority language family
locatedIn Bay of Bengal
Indian Ocean
partOf Austroasiatic language phylum
region Andaman and Nicobar Islands
spokenIn India
Nicobar Islands
subclassOf Austroasiatic languages
linked to: Austroasiatic
typology mostly analytic
usedIn education at primary level in some Nicobar schools
local administration in Nicobar Islands
wordOrder SVO

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Katchal isoFamilyCode nicobarese (family)