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Ethnologue > Web version > Country index > Asia > India > Nicobarese, Southern

Nicobarese, Southern

A language of India

ISO 639-3nik

Population  57,500 (2001). 348 on Little Nicobar Island, 7,566 total on Great Nicobar, about 400 of these are Shompen.
Region  Nicobar Islands, Little Nicobar and outer Great Nicobar islands.
Alternate names   Nicobara
Dialects  Condul (Kondul), Great Nicobar, Little Nicobar, Milo, Sambelong, Tafwap.
Classification  Austro-Asiatic, Mon-Khmer, Nicobar, Great Nicobar
Language development  Literacy rate in L2: 46% for Scheduled Tribes in Nicobar District. 72% for Nicobar.
Comments  Christian.