Southern Nicobarese

Facts

  • Language: Southern Nicobarese
  • Alternate names: Nicobarese, Southern, Condul, Great Nicobar, Little Nicobar, Milo, Lo'ong, Ong, Lamongse, Lamongshe, Takahanyilang
  • Language code: nik
  • Language family: Austro-Asiatic, Mon-Khmer, Nicobar, Great Nicobar (SIL classification)
  • Number of speakers: Approximately 7,500
  • Vulnerability: Threatened
  • Script:

More information:

    Hindu, traditional religion, Muslim.

    Unclear how many of the dialects subsumed under Southern Nicobarese are languages in their own right.