| Language name: | NICOBARESE |
| UPSID number: | 2313 |
| Alternate name(s): | |
| Classification: | Austro-Asiatic, Nicobarese |
| This language has | 25 segments |
| Its Frequency index is | 0.449844789 (average percentage of segments; 0.1: many very rare segments; 0.39: average; 0.7: many common segments) |
| The language has these sounds: | p t k sD tS f h m n n_ N r[ r l j w i e E @ uu u o O a_) |
| Comment: | Nicobasrese is spoken in Nicobar Islands, Katchall, Camoita, Nancoury and Trinkat Islands in India. Vowels appear long and short but long vowels are pronounced "so that it seems that two short vowels are pronounced side by side" (Das, 1977: 4). Das also lists many "diphthongs" which seem best regarded as vowel sequences. |
| Source(s): | Das, A.R. 1977. A Study on the Nicobarese Language. Anthropological Survey of India, Government of India, Calcutta. |