Nicobarese in India

Speakers

29,099

Type

Location

Country

Information available

1. Basics

Names

Nicobarese in India

Size

29,099

2. Status

Status

  • Official country wide language
  • Official regional language
  • Official minority language
  • Recognised community language
  • Unrecognised community language
National language
No
Indigenous language
Yes
Administrative units of the country
NER

3. State

Documentation: materials

Written

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials

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Video

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Digital
Yes
Comments
Cultural dance, language documentation videos available in YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZVFj0I_EYw&pp=ygUZbmljb2JhcmVzZSB0cmliZSBjdWx0dXJlIA%3D%3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-1Oly5Gv_c&pp=ygUZbmljb2JhcmVzZSB0cmliZSBjdWx0dXJlIA%3D%3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWYNL4q-xys&pp=ygUZbmljb2JhcmVzZSB0cmliZSBjdWx0dXJlIA%3D%3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9whLct0Oag&pp=ygUZbmljb2JhcmVzZSB0cmliZSBjdWx0dXJlIA%3D%3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BEEAjTco18&pp=ygUZbmljb2JhcmVzZSB0cmliZSBjdWx0dXJlIA%3D%3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CDGMMKoUMI&pp=ygUZbmljb2JhcmVzZSB0cmliZSBjdWx0dXJlIA%3D%3D
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nicobarese+ tribe+culture+
https://archive.org/details/dni.ncaa.CVI-BETA_233-BC
https://archive.org/details/dli.Indigenous.People.Of. Car.Nicobarisisland
https://archive.org/search?query=nicobarese&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22movies%22

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Audio

  • Extended corpora
  • Annotated corpora
  • Corpus/corpora
  • Materials/corpus
  • Some materials
  • No materials
Comments
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/33451
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/33150
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3/6401.zip
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3-low/6401.zip
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp4/6401.zip
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/avi/6401.zip
https://globalrecordings.net/en/program/62002
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3/6416.zip
https://api.globalrecordings.net/files/language/mp3-low/6416.zip
https://globalrecordings.net/en/language/caq

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Documentation: descriptions

  • Elaborated dictionaries, grammars, statistical language models, etc.
  • Dictionaries and grammars
  • Dictionary and grammar
  • Glossary and descriptions
  • Few descriptions
  • No descriptions
Digital
Yes
Comments

1. Radhakrishnan, R., 1981. The Nancowry word: phonology, affixal morphology, and roots of a Nicobarese language. (Current inquiry into language and linguistics, 37.)
2. Rajasingh, V.R. 2019. The Nicobarese-Hindi-English Dictionary. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages.
3. Edward H. Man. 1889. A dictionary of Central Nicobarese. London: W.~H.~Allen. lviii+iv+243pp.
4. Man, Edward Horace. 2005. A dictionary of the central Nicobarese language: English-Nicobarese and Nicobarese-English ; with appendices containing a comparison of synonymous words in the remaining Nicobares forms and other matters, preceded by notes on the grammar of the central form. repr. edn. Delhi: Sanskaran Prakashak. lx+243pp. (Reprint of the 1889 ed. published by W. H. Allen, London).
5. Paul Sidwell. 2015. Car Nicobarese. In Paul Sidwell and Mathias Jenny (eds.), The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages, 1229-1265. Leiden: Brill.
6. Man, Edward H. 1889. Dictionary of the Centural Nicobarese language (English-Nicobarese and Nicobarese-English) with appendices containing a comparison of synonymous words in the remaining Nicobarese forms and other matters, preceded by notes on the grammar of the Central form. London.
7. Rajasingh, V. R. 2016. Mūöt (Nicobarese). Mon-Khmer Studies 41. 14-52.
8. Edward H. Man. 1889. A dictionary of Central Nicobarese. London: W.~H.~Allen. lviii+iv+243pp.
9. V. R. Rajasingh. 2010. Personal pronouns in Muöt. In K. S. Nagaraja and Kashyap Mankodi (eds.), Austroasiatic linguistics: proceedings of [sic!] third international conference of Austroasiatic linguistics, 26-28 November 2007, 208-223. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages.
10. de Röepstorff, Ad. 1875. Vocabulary of Dialects Spoken in the Nicobar and Andaman Isles. 2nd edn. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing. 170pp.
https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/cent1990
11. Dictionary of the Car-Nicobarese Language by Whitehead, George 1925.
12. Vocabulary of dialects spoken in the Nicobar and Andman Isles : with a short account of the natives, their customs and habits, and of previous attempts at colonisation by Roepstroff, Ad. De, 1875.
https://archive.org/search?query=nicobarese&and%5B%5D=mediatype%3A%22texts%22
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/simple-search?query=Nicobarese+language&go=
https://lai.ciil.org/items/d274dd2d-db7f-4c1a-ba34-9a3de2a143c2
https://lai.ciil.org/search?spc.page=1&query=nicobarese&spc.sf=score&spc.sd=DESC

Standardization

  • Modern standard language
  • Young standard language
  • Standardised language
  • Quasi-standard language
  • Semi-standardised language
  • Un-standardised language

Graphisation & script encoding

  • Standardised writing system with full script encoding
  • Conventionalised writing system with partial script encoding
  • Consistent writing system with no script encoding
  • Unsystematic writing system(s)
  • Limited written use
  • No written use

4. Users

Geographical distribution

  • Users live and dominate in all regions of the country
  • Users live in one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in a cross-border region [state/...] of the country
  • Users live in separated [states/...] of the country
  • Users live dispersed across one [state/...] of the country
  • Users live scattered all over the country

Settlements

  • Rural
  • Urban
Administrative units of the country
ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS

Size / Number of users

Number of users

29099
Source
census of India
Year
2011

Users within total population

Age distribution of users

Educational attainment

No education

Occupational qualifications

Language competence

Understand some, speak/sign little

Literacy of users

5. Use

Socio-geographic dimension

Geographic scope
  • International
  • Supranational
  • Cross-border (states)
  • State-wide
  • Supra-regional cross-border
  • Supra-regional
  • Regional cross-border
  • Regional
  • Local
Source
https://langlex.com/cens/MTProfile.php?mtname=Nicobarese

Economic dimension

Functional dimension

Functional use in administration

Language use in administration
  • International level
  • National level
  • Regional level
  • Local level
  • Auxiliary use
  • No use

Types of language use

  • signed / spoken use
  • written use
  • digital use

Ethnoculture

  • No use
  • Informal learning
  • Skills and knowledge
  • Performing arts
  • Social practices
  • Customary law
  • Traditional medicine
  • Knowledge and practices
  • Traditions and expressions

Formal Education

Early childhood education
Primary level
Lower secondary level
Higher secondary level
Tertiary level

Public healthcare

Information, communication and cultural production

  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used
  • Information services
  • Broadcasting
  • Video, film
  • Sound/music recording
  • Publishing activities
  • Language not used

Completion