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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Infobox language<br />
|name=Nancowry<br />
|nativename=''{{lang|ncb|Mūöt}}''<br />
|altname=Nang-kauri<ref>Edward Horace Man, 1889, ''A dictionary of the central Nicobarese language''</ref><br />
|pronunciation={{IPA|[mɯːət]}}<br />
|states=[[Nicobar Islands]], [[India]]<br />
|region= [[Nancowry Island]] (Mūöt)<br />
|speakers={{sigfig|930|2}}<br />
|date=2001 census<br />
|ref=<ref>{{e18|ncb|Nicobarese, Central}}</ref><br />
|familycolor=Austro-Asiatic<br />
|fam2=[[Nicobarese languages|Nicobarese]]<br />
|fam3=[[Central Nicobarese languages|Central]]<br />
|iso3=<br />
|isoexception=dialect<br />
|glotto=nanc1247<br />
|glottorefname=Nancowry<br />
}}<br />
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'''Nancowry''' (Nancoury, Nankwari, ''{{lang|ncb|Mūöt}}'') is a [[Nicobarese languages|Nicobarese language]] spoken in the central [[Nicobar Islands]]. It is not mutually intelligible with the other Central Nicobarese languages, and is distantly related to [[Vietnamese language|Vietnamese]] and [[Khmer language|Khmer]],<br />
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==Phonology==<br />
=== Consonants ===<br />
{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center<br />
!<br />
![[Labial consonant|Labial]]<br />
![[Alveolar consonant|Alveolar]]/<br>[[Retroflex consonant|Retroflex]]<br />
![[Palatal consonant|Palatal]]<br />
![[Velar consonant|Velar]]<br />
![[Glottal consonant|Glottal]]<br />
|- align="center"<br />
![[Stop consonant|Plosive]]<br />
|p<br />
|t̪<br />
|c<br />
|k<br />
|ʔ<br />
|- align="center"<br />
![[Nasal consonant|Nasal]]<br />
|m<br />
|n̪<br />
|ɲ<br />
|ŋ<br />
|<br />
|- align="center"<br />
![[Fricative consonant|Fricative]]<br />
|f ʋ<br />
|s<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|h<br />
|- align="center"<br />
![[Tap consonant|Tap]]<br />
|<br />
|ɾ<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|- align="center"<br />
![[Approximant consonant|Approximant]]<br />
|<br />
|l<br />
|j<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
<br />
* The labial glide written variously v and w is written ʋ<br />
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=== Vowels ===<br />
{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center<br />
!<br />
![[Front vowel|Front]]<br />
![[Central vowel|Central]]<br />
![[Back vowel|Back]]<br />
|- align="center"<br />
![[Close vowel|Close]]<br />
|i<br />
|ɯ<br />
|u<br />
|- align="center"<br />
![[Close-mid vowel|Close-mid]]<br />
|e<br />
|<br />
|o<br />
|-<br />
![[Open-mid vowel|Open-mid]]<br />
|ɛ<br />
|ə<br />
|ɔ<br />
|- align="center"<br />
![[Open vowel|Open]]<br />
|æ<br />
|a<br />
|<br />
|}<br />
<br />
==Vocabulary==<br />
[[Paul Sidwell]] (2017)<ref name="Sidwell2017">Sidwell, Paul. 2017. "[https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B1vtRZF3p8awSmxCRkZ5RjNSbWs Proto-Nicobarese Phonology, Morphology, Syntax: work in progress]". International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics 7, Kiel, Sept 29-Oct 1, 2017.</ref> published in ICAAL 2017 conference on Nicobarese languages.<br />
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{| class="wikitable"<br />
|+<br />
|-<br />
! Word !! Nancowry !! proto-Nicobarese<br />
|-<br />
| hot || táɲ || *taɲ<br />
|-<br />
| four || koan || *foan<br />
|-<br />
| child || kúan || *kuːn<br />
|-<br />
| lip || manúɲ || *manuːɲ<br />
|-<br />
| dog || ʔám || *ʔam<br />
|-<br />
| night || hatə́m || *hatəːm<br />
|-<br />
| male || kóɲ || *koːɲ<br />
|-<br />
| ear || náŋ || *naŋ<br />
|-<br />
| one || hĩaŋ || *hiaŋ<br />
|-<br />
| belly || wíaŋ || *ʔac<br />
|-<br />
| sun || hɛ́ŋ || -<br />
|-<br />
| sweet || síaŋ || -<br />
|-<br />
| deep || cijáw || -<br />
|-<br />
| thigh || pulóʔ || -<br />
|-<br />
| python || tulán || -<br />
|-<br />
| road || kají || -<br />
|-<br />
| yawn || hiŋáp || -<br />
|-<br />
| centipede || kaʔiáp || -<br />
|-<br />
| dream || ʔinfuá || -<br />
|-<br />
| tongue || kaliták || -<br />
|-<br />
| overflow || yuait-nga || *roac<br />
|-<br />
| nose || moah || *moah<br />
|-<br />
| breast || toah || *toah<br />
|-<br />
| to cough || oōàh || *ʔoah<br />
|-<br />
| arm || koâl || *koal<br />
|-<br />
| in, inside || oal, òl || *ʔoal<br />
|-<br />
| four || fōan || *foan<br />
|-<br />
| elbow || det-ongkēang || *keaŋ<br />
|}<br />
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==Morphology==<br />
Presence of a coda-copy-infixation system. Stock of lexical roots is reduced by active word taboo and hence rely on derivation extensively.<br />
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* kóɲ - 'male, husband'<br />
* ʔumkóɲ -'to turn into a man'<br />
* mumkóɲ - 'eunuch' <br />
* ʔinkóɲtet - 'widower'<br />
* kóɲu - 'to marry, to have a man'<br />
* kamóɲu - 'married women'<br />
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Shared morphological alternations: the old AA causative has two allomorphs, prefix ha- with monosyllabic stems, infix -um- in disyllabic stems (note: *p > h onset in unstressed σ).<br />
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* ŋok - 'to eat' / haŋok 'to feed'<br />
* cim - 'to cry' / hacim 'to make someone cry'<br />
* lapəʔ - 'pretty' / lumpəʔ 'to make someone pretty'<br />
* karuʔ - 'large' / kumdruʔ 'to enlarge'<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|+Pronouns<br />
|-<br />
! Person !! Singular !! Dual !! Plural <br />
|-<br />
| 1st || cə̃ˑ ~ cɯ̃ˑə || xãˑʔ (incl.)<br>ci ʔaˑj (excl.) || xeˑʔ (incl.)<br>ci ʔəˑj (excl.)<br />
|-<br />
| 2nd || mɛ̃ˑ || ʔinãˑ || ʔifeˑ <br />
|-<br />
| 3rd || ʔə̃ˑn || ʔunãˑ || ʔufeˑ<br />
|-<br />
| Dem- Prox || nɛˑʔ || - || ʔiˑn<br />
|-<br />
| Dem- Dist || ʔãˑn || ŋãˑŋ || kəˑʔ<br />
|}<br />
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==References==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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{{Austro-Asiatic languages}}<br />
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[[Category:Languages of India]]<br />
[[Category:Nicobarese languages]]<br />
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->Graeme Bartlett