The Nicobarese, 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, administered by India. They have a total of about 30,000 speakers, most of them speaking the Car language.
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Speaker Count Proto-Language StatusProto-Nicobarese reconstructed 2 Browse and compare
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1. Glottolog: Nicobaric (languoid record)
GlottologLanguoid record: child_language_count
"child_language_count": 5
Languoid record: level and category
"level": "family", "bookkeeping": false, "category": "Family"
View the Source 2. Nicobarese languages (Wikipedia)
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spoken by most of the inhabitants of the Nicobar Islands administered by the Indian Republic
Lead section, speakers
They have a total of about 30,000 speakers (22,100 native).
Infobox, Proto-language
Proto-language: Proto-Nicobarese
Infobox: protoname
Proto-Nicobarese
View the SourceWikidata: Nicobarese
Wikidata Q217380, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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