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{{Infobox language family<br />
|name=Nicobarese<br />
|altname=Nicobaric<br />
|ethnicity=[[Nicobarese people]]<br />
|region=[[Nicobar Islands]], India<br />
|familycolor=Austro-Asiatic<br />
|glotto=nico1262<br />
|glottorefname=Nicobaric<br />
|child1=[[Car language|Car]]<br />
|child2=[[Chaura language|Chaura]]–[[Teressa language|Teressa]]<br />
|child3=[[Central Nicobarese languages|Central]]-[[Southern Nicobarese language|Southern]]<br />
|protoname=Proto-Nicobarese<br />
|map=Nicobar Islands.jpg<br />
|mapcaption=The Nicobar Islands. Car is at top.<br />
|map2=Austroasiatic-en.svg<br />
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The '''Nicobarese languages''' or '''Nicobaric languages''', form an isolated group of about half a dozen closely related [[Austroasiatic languages]], spoken by most of the inhabitants of the [[Nicobar Islands]] of [[India]]. They have a total of about 30,000 speakers (22,100 native). Most Nicobarese speakers speak the [[Car language]]. [[Paul Sidwell]] (2015:179)<ref>Sidwell, Paul. 2015. "Austroasiatic classification." In Jenny, Mathias and Paul Sidwell, eds (2015). ''The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages''. Leiden: Brill.</ref> considers the Nicobarese languages to subgroup with [[Aslian languages|Aslian]].<br />
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The Nicobarese languages appear to be related to the [[Shompen language]] of the [[indigenous peoples|indigenous inhabitants]] of the interior of [[Great Nicobar Island]] (Blench & Sidwell 2011), which is usually considered a separate branch of Austroasiatic.<ref>Blench, Roger, and Paul Sidwell. 2011. "Is Shom Pen a Distinct Branch?" In Sophana Srichampa and Paul Sidwell, eds. ''Austroasiatic Studies: Papers from ICAAL 4''. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.</ref> However, [[Paul Sidwell]] (2017)<ref name="Sidwell2017"/> classifies Shompen as a Southern Nicobaric language rather than as a separate branch of Austroasiatic.<br />
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The morphological similarities between Nicobarese and [[Austronesian languages]] have been used as evidence for the [[Austric languages|Austric hypothesis]] (Reid 1994).<ref>Reid, Lawrence A. 1994. Morphological evidence for Austric. Oceanic Linguistics 33(2):323-344.</ref><br />
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==Languages==<br />
From north to south, the Nicobaric languages are:<br />
*Car: [[Car language|Car]] (Pū)<br />
*Chaura–Teressa: [[Chaura language|Chaura]] (Tutet/Sanënyö), [[Teressa language|Teressa]] (Taih-Long/Lurö)<br />
*[[Central Nicobarese languages|Central]]: [[Nancowry language|Nancowry]] (Nang-kauri/Mūöt), [[Camorta language|Camorta]], [[Katchal language|Katchal]] (Tehnu)<br />
*Southern: [[Southern Nicobarese language|Southern Nicobarese]] (Sambelong), [[Shompen language|Shompen]] (Shom Peng)<br />
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==Classification==<br />
Paul Sidwell (2017) classifies the Nicobaric languages as follows.<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><br />
*[[Car language|Car]]<br />
*Chaura–Teressa<br />
**[[Teressa language|Teressa]], [[Chaura language|Chaura]]<br />
*Central-Southern<br />
**Central: [[Nancowry language|Nancowry]], [[Camorta language|Camorta]], [[Katchal language|Katchall]] <br />
**Southern: [[Southern Nicobarese language|Southern Nicobarese]], [[Shompen language|Shompen]]<br />
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==See also==<br />
*[[Shompen language]]<br />
*[[Wiktionary:Appendix:List of Proto-Nicobarese reconstructions|List of Proto-Nicobarese reconstructions]] (Wiktionary)<br />
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==References==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
*Adams, K. L. (1989). ''Systems of numeral classification in the Mon–Khmer, Nicobarese and Aslian subfamilies of Austroasiatic''. Canberra, A.C.T., Australia: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. {{ISBN|0-85883-373-5}}<br />
*Radhakrishnan, R. (1981). ''The Nancowry Word: Phonology, Affixal Morphology and Roots of a Nicobarese Language''. Current Inquiry Into Language and Linguistics 37. Linguistic Research Inc., P.O. Box 5677, Station 'L', Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6C 4G1. {{ISBN|0-88783-041-2}}<br />
*Sidwell, Paul. 2018. [https://evols.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/bitstream/10524/52438/3/JSEALS_Special_Publication_3.pdf Proto-Nicobarese phonology]. In ''Papers from the Seventh International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics'', 101-131. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society Special Publication No. 3. University of Hawai’i Press.<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://sites.google.com/view/paulsidwell/nicobarese-languages-project Nicobarese Languages Project] ([[Paul Sidwell]])<br />
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