Southern Nicobarese is a Nicobarese language, spoken on the Southern Nicobar Islands of Little Nicobar (Ong), Great Nicobar (Lo'ong), and a couple small neighboring islands, Kondul (Lamongshe) and Pulo Milo (Milo Island). Each is said to have its own dialect. Distribution Parmanand Lal (1977:23)[2] 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. - Pulo-kunyi
- Kopenhaiyen
- Kashindon
- Koye
- Pulo-babi
- Batadiya
- Kakaiyu
- Pulo-pucca
- Ehengloy
- Pulo-baha
- Chinge
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)[3] 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 | (otāˑha) | *koːɲ | ear | nâng | *naŋ | one | heg | *hiaŋ | belly | wīˑang | *ʔac | sun | hēg | - | sweet | shai(t) | - | See also - Shompen language, also spoken on Great Nicobar
References - ^ Southern Nicobarese at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
- ^ Lal, Parmanand. 1977. Great Nicobar Island: study in human ecology. Calcutta: Anthropological Survey of India, Govt. of India.
- ^ Sidwell, Paul. 2017. "Proto-Nicobarese Phonology, Morphology, Syntax: work in progress". International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics 7, Kiel, Sept 29-Oct 1, 2017.
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