ニコバル諸語

ニコバル諸語（Nicobarase languages）はオーストロアジア語族に属す言語である。インドのニコバル諸島でニコバル人に話される。全体で30,000人の話者がいる。(母語話者は22,100 人)。ニコバル諸語の話者はの多くはカー語を用いる。

ニコバル諸語は大ニコバル島のションペン語に遠縁であるとされる
Blench, Roger, and Paul Sidwell. 2011. "Is Shom Pen a Distinct Branch?" In Sophana Srichampa and Paul Sidwell, eds. Austroasiatic Studies: Papers from ICAAL 4. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.が、一方で:en:Paul Sidwell (2017)Sidwell, Paul. 2017. "Proto-Nicobarese Phonology, Morphology, Syntax: work in progress". International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics 7, Kiel, Sept 29-Oct 1, 2017.はションペン語をオーストロアジア語族内の別の系統に属さしている。

ニコバル諸語とオーストロネシア語族の形態的類似はオーストリック大語族仮説を支持する助けとなる。

下位言語
カー語
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Nancowry, Camorta, Katchal

文献
Adams, K. L. (1989). Systems of numeral classification in the Mon–Khmer, Nicobarese and Aslian subfamilies of Austroasiatic. Canberra, A.C.T., Australia: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. ISBN 0-85883-373-5
Radhakrishnan, R. (1981). The Nancowry Word: Phonology, Affixal Morphology and Roots of a Nicobarese Language. Current Inquiry Into Language and Linguistics 37. Linguistic Research Inc., P.O. Box 5677, Station 'L', Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6C 4G1. ISBN 0-88783-041-2
Saini, Ajay (2012): “Thus Spake the Nicobarese”, The Indian Journal of Social Work, 73 (2): 287-94.
Saini, Ajay (2013a): “Post-tsunami Socio-cultural Changes among the Nicobarese: An Ethnography of the Nicobarese of Southern Nicobar Islands” TISS Working Paper Series No 1, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, January. ISSN 2320-1894.
Saini, Ajay (2013b): “A Nicobarese Tribal Leader Who Lived Two Lives”, Economic and Political Weekly, 48(51) 21 December. Viewed on 4 January 2014 (http://www.epw.in/web-exclusives/nicobarese-tribal-leader-who-lived-two-lives.html).
Saini, Ajay (2014a): “A Nicobarese Tribal Leader Who Lived Two Lives”, Economic and Political Weekly, 49(5), 24-6.  (Republished with stylistic changes)
Saini, Ajay (2014b): “Consumerism among the Nicobarese: The Post-tsunami Phase in Nicobar Islands”, Economic and Political Weekly, 49 (46) 15 November, http://www.epw.in/reports-states/consumerism-among-nicobarese.html
Saini, Ajay (2015a): “The Nicobarese ‘Letters of Sufferings: In Protest, Respectfully Yours’”, Economic and Political Weekly, Vol 50(8), 72-73.
Saini, Ajay (2015b): “The Kamorta Island Land Conundrum in the Central Nicobar”, Andaman Chronicle. 19, April 2015.

脚注

外部リンク
 The Nicobarese by Dr. Simron Jit Singh

Category:オーストロアジア語族
Category:アンダマン・ニコバル諸島