Car Nicobarese

Car Nicobarese is an Austroasiatic language spoken in India, by about 37 thousand people. Glottolog rates it threatened.

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Car Nicobarese · 9.2°N 92.8°E

Car (Pū) is the most widely spoken Nicobarese language of the Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal.

Although a member of the Austroasiatic language family, it is typologically much more akin to nearby Austronesian languages such as Nias and Acehnese, with which it forms a linguistic area. Car is a VOS language and somewhat agglutinative. There is a quite complicated verbal suffix system with some infixes, as well as distinct genitive and "interrogative" cases for nouns and pronouns.

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Words in Car Nicobarese

Meaning	Word	Romanization
woman	kikano
person	tarik*
name	minE7E5*
eye	mat*
ear	naN*
nose	ElmEh*
tooth	kanap*
tongue	litāk
hand	ti*
blood	maham*
bone	taNEk*
skin	uk*
breast	tEh*
liver	alip*
water	mak
fire	tamuiy3*
sun	tawu3i*
star	tan3s3mat*
stone	ihoN*
mountain	roN3*
river	ta-hël
tree	Tona*
leaf	roi*
night	hat3m*
dog	am
fish	ka*
louse	tarul*
one	heN*
two	nEt*
I	TinT3*

* in the simplified ASJP transcription

Most similar languages

Vocabulary

Central NicobareseAustroasiatic28% alike
ChauraAustroasiatic27% alike
Eastern KatuAustroasiatic20% alike
TeressaAustroasiatic19% alike
CuaAustroasiatic18% alike
Kriang-KhlorAustroasiatic16% alike

Grammar

LotudAustronesian88% alike
Sabah BisayaAustronesian85% alike
Western Bukidnon ManoboAustronesian85% alike
West BerawanAustronesian84% alike
IranunAustronesian84% alike
MotaAustronesian84% alike

Vocabulary compares 40 basic words (ASJP); grammar compares 195 features (Grambank). Similar is not always related.

Nearby languages

Chaura Teressa Central Nicobarese Önge Shom Peng Jarawa (India)Andaman Creole Hindi Southern Nicobarese Akakora Apucikwar

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