Southern Nicobarese language
Southern Nicobarese is a Nicobarese language, spoken on the Southern Nicobar Islands of Little Nicobar, Great Nicobar, and small neighboring islands, Kondul and Pulo Milo each of which have own dialects.
Distribution
Parmanand Lal 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
- Dakade
- Puithey
- Tataiya
Vocabulary
published in ICAAL 2017 conference on Nicobarese languages.| Word | Southern Nicobarese | proto-Nicobarese |
| hot | tait | *taɲ |
| four | fôat | *foan |
| child | kōˑan | *kuːn |
| lip | paṅ-nōˑin | *manuːɲ |
| dog | âm | *ʔam |
| night | hatòm | *hatəːm |
| male | *koːɲ | |
| ear | nâng | *naŋ |
| one | heg | *hiaŋ |
| belly | wīˑang | *ʔac |
| sun | hēg | - |
| sweet | shai | - |