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Central Nicobarese Languages
Central Nicobarese is a group of Nicobarese languages The Nicobarese languages or Nicobaric languages, form an isolated group of about half a dozen closely related Austroasiatic languages, spoken by most of the inhabitants of the Nicobar Islands of India. They have a total of about 30,000 speakers ... spoken by 10,000 people (as of the 2001 census) on the Nicobar Islands. The varieties spoken on the various islands apart from Trinket are not mutually intelligible, and are considered separate languages: * Nanmeowry (Nankwari) * Camorta (Kamorta) * Katchal (Tehnu) References Nicobarese languages {{AustroAsiatic-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camorta Island
Kamorta Island is an island in the Nicobar Islands chain of India, located in the northeast Indian Ocean between the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. Facilities INS Kardip is a naval forward operating base of the joint-services Andaman and Nicobar Command on Kamorta island. The Indian Navy's Kamorta-class Corvette is named after the island. Demographics Kalatapu is the main village on this island. According to the 2011 census of India, The Island has 915 households. List of villages from north to south and population: *Kakana, Nancowry, 265, * Kakana South, 5, * Neeche Tapu, 2, * Pilpilow, 280, * Vikas Nagar, 235, *Karan, 5, * Daring, 110, * Maru, 0, * Chanol, 13, * Berainak, 188, * Chota Inak, 239, *Sanuh, 15, * Banderkari, 23, * Kalatapu, 1870, * Ramzoo, 98, * Tomae, 10, * Changua, 136, * Munak, 117, * Payuha, 24, *Knot, 9, * Alukian, 46, Administration The island belongs to the township A township is a kind of human settlement or administrative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancowry Island
Nancowry (Nancowry language: ''Mūöt'', Hindi: नन्कोव्री ''Nankovrī'') is an island in the central part of the Nicobar Islands chain, located in the northeast Indian Ocean between the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. History In 1755, the government of Denmark formally claimed sovereignty over Nicobars, under the name of ''Frederiksøerne'' ("Frederik Islands") and encouraged a mission established by the Moravian Brethren of Herrnhut. The Danes established a short-lived colony on the island which they named ''Ny Sjælland'' ("New Zealand"). Along with Kamorta Island, which lies just to the north, Nancowry Island forms the "magnificent land-locked" Nancowry Harbour, used by European sailors since at least the 17th century and described as "one of the safest natural harbours in the world". The harbour was apparently used as a base for piracy; in 1868, the British Navy entered the harbour in some force, destroying suspected pirate ships. 2004 tsunami The island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katchal Island
Katchal (Hindi: कत्चल, Nicobarese: तिहन्यु, ''Tihnyu'') is one of the Nicobar Islands, India. History Katchal Island was previously known as Tihanyu. Due to the remote location and lack of exposure with the rest of the world, outsiders economically exploited the innocent islanders for a long time. To stop their economic exploitation, the Government of India declared the Nicobar Islands an Aboriginal Tribal Reserve Area (ATRA) on 2 April 1957. This made the Nicobar Islands inaccessible to outsiders and currently even Indian nationals need a special tribal pass to visit the islands. Only Government Servants (outsiders) posted to Katchal Islands are allowed to stay in the island. Nicobar Islands have experienced all kinds of external influences for centuries, because they are located along an ancient international sea trade route and have been known to voyagers and scholars since ancient times. Due to this, the islands have been receiving external influen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trinket Island
Trinket Island (sometimes spelled Trinkat or Trinkut) is one of the 24 islands that make up the Nicobar Islands chain, located in the northeast Indian Ocean between the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. It is located east of Kamorta Island. Geography Trinket has an area of 12.25 km², and a flat, low topography. Regional monsoons bring rains of 3,000 mm to 3,800 mm yearly. The island is surrounded by shallow waters and coral reefs,K. Venkataraman, "Coral Reefs of India", in D. Hopley (Ed.), ''Encyclopedia of Modern Coral Reefs: Structure, Form and Process'', Springer (Dordrecht, 2011). . which allow it to be approached by boat only during high tide. Administration From 1869 until 1947 Trinket was part of Britain's Indian colonies. In 1947 it became part of the Dominion of India, and since 1950 of the Republic of India. Trinket is part of the Kamorta Tehsil, Nancowry subdivision of the Nicobars District, and part of the Andaman & Nicobar Islands state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, interm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicobarese Languages
The Nicobarese languages or Nicobaric languages, form an isolated group of about half a dozen closely related Austroasiatic languages, spoken by most of the inhabitants of the Nicobar Islands of India. They have a total of about 30,000 speakers (22,100 native). Most Nicobarese speakers speak the Car language. Paul Sidwell (2015:179) considers the Nicobarese languages to subgroup with Aslian. The Nicobarese languages appear to be related to the Shompen language of the indigenous inhabitants of the interior of Great Nicobar Island (Blench & Sidwell 2011), which is usually considered a separate branch of Austroasiatic. However, Paul Sidwell (2017) classifies Shompen as a Southern Nicobaric language rather than as a separate branch of Austroasiatic. The morphological similarities between Nicobarese and Austronesian languages have been used as evidence for the Austric hypothesis (Reid 1994).Reid, Lawrence A. 1994. Morphological evidence for Austric. Oceanic Linguistics 33(2):323 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camorta Language
Camorta (Kamorta) is a Nicobarese language spoken in the central Nicobar Islands. It is not mutually intelligible with the other Central Nicobarese languages. It is considered by '' Ethnologue'' as a dialect of the Central Nicobarese language. References Languages of India Nicobarese languages {{AustroAsiatic-lang-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancowry Language
Nancowry (Nancoury, Nankwari, ') is a Nicobarese language spoken in the central Nicobar Islands. It is not mutually intelligible with the other Central Nicobarese languages, and is distantly related to Vietnamese and Khmer, Phonology Consonants * The labial glide written variously v and w is written ʋ Vowels Vocabulary Paul Sidwell Paul James Sidwell is an Australian linguist based in Canberra, Australia who has held research and lecturing positions at the Australian National University. Sidwell, who is also an expert and consultant in forensic linguistics, is most notab ... (2017)Sidwell, Paul. 2017.Proto-Nicobarese Phonology, Morphology, Syntax: work in progress. International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics 7, Kiel, Sept 29-Oct 1, 2017. published in ICAAL 2017 conference on Nicobarese languages. Morphology Presence of a coda-copy-infixation system. Stock of lexical roots is reduced by active word taboo and hence rely on derivation extensively. * k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katchal Language
Katchal (Katchall, Katchál, Kachel), or ''Tehnu (Tēhnyu)'',Edward Horace Man, 1889, ''A dictionary of the central Nicobarese language'' is a Nicobarese language spoken in the central Nicobar Islands. Apart from the dialect of TrinketRobert Parkin, 1991, ''A guide to austroasiatic speakers and their languages'', pp 37–38 (Trinkat, Trinkut, or ''Lâfūl''), it is not mutually intelligible with the other Central Nicobarese languages. The population of Trinket was evacuated to Nancowry and Camorta after the 2004 tsunami An earthquake and a tsunami, known as the Boxing Day Tsunami and, by the scientific community, the Sumatra–Andaman earthquake, occurred at 07:58:53 local time ( UTC+7) on 26 December 2004, with an epicentre off the west coast of northern Su ..., and can be expected to disappear as speakers assimilate. References Languages of India Nicobarese languages {{AustroAsiatic-lang-stub fr:Nancowry (langue) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicobar Islands
The Nicobar Islands are an archipelagic island chain in the eastern Indian Ocean. They are located in Southeast Asia, northwest of Aceh on Sumatra, and separated from Thailand to the east by the Andaman Sea. Located southeast of the Indian subcontinent, across the Bay of Bengal, they are part of India, as the Nicobar district within the union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. UNESCO has declared the Great Nicobar Island as one of the World Network of Biosphere Reserves. The International Coordinating Council of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB), added the following new sites to the World Network of Biosphere Reserves (WNBR) http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/multimedia/photos/mab-2013/india/. Geography The Nicobar Islands cover a land area of and had a pop ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
