Southern Nicobarese language

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) 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) published in ICAAL 2017 conference on Nicobarese languages.