Car language
Austroasiatic language spoken in the Nicobar Islands, India / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with the Kar language of Burkina Faso.
Car (Pū) is the most widely spoken Nicobarese language of the Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
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Car | |
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Pū | |
Pronunciation | [puː] |
Native to | India |
Region | Nicobar Islands |
Native speakers | 37,000 (2005)[1] |
Latin script | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | caq |
Glottolog | carn1240 |
ELP | Car Nicobarese |
Coordinates: 9.19°N 92.77°E / 9.19; 92.77 |
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Although a member of the Austroasiatic language family, it is typologically much more akin to nearby Austronesian languages such as Nias and Acehnese, with which it forms a linguistic area.[2] Car is a VOS language and somewhat agglutinative.[3] There is a quite complicated verbal suffix system with some infixes, as well as distinct genitive and "interrogative" cases for nouns and pronouns.[4]