Southern Nicobarese language

Southern Nicobarese is a Nicobarese language, spoken on the Southern Nicobar Islands of Little Nicobar (Lamôngsĕ), Great Nicobar (Tökahāṅilā), and small neighboring islands, Kondul and Pulo Milo (Milo Island) each of which have own dialects.

Distribution

Parmanand Lal (1977:23) reported 11 Nicobarese villages with 192 people in all, located mostly along the western coast of Great Nicobar Island. Pulo-babi village was the site of Lal's extensive ethnographic study.

• Batadiya
• Chinge
• Ehengloy
• Kakaiyu
• Kashindon
• Kopenhaiyen
• Koye
• Pulo-babi
• Pulo-baha
• Pulo-kunyi
• Pulo-pucca

Lal (1977:104) also reported the presence of several Shompen villages in the interior of Great Nicobar Island.

• Dakade (10 km northeast of Pulo-babi, a Nicobarese village; 15 persons and 4 huts)
• Puithey (16 km southeast of Pulo-babi)
• Tataiya (inhabited by the Dogmar River Shompen group, who had moved from Tataiya to Pulo-kunyi between 1960 and 1977)

Vocabulary

Paul Sidwell (2017) published in ICAAL 2017 conference on Nicobarese languages.

See also

• Shompen language, also spoken on Great Nicobar

References