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Central Nicobarese
Geographic
distribution
Camorta, Nancowry, Katchal, & Trinket Islands,
India
Native speakers
10,100 (2001) [1]
Linguistic classification Austroasiatic
Subdivisions
ISO 639-3 ncb
Glottolog cent1990
ELP Central Nicobarese

Central Nicobarese is a group of Nicobarese languages spoken by 10,000 people (as of the 2001 census) on the Nicobar Islands. The varieties spoken on the various islands apart from Trinket are not mutually intelligible, and are considered separate languages:

References

  1. ^ Central Nicobarese at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022) Closed access icon