Car language

Car language

language
name=Car
nativename=Car
familycolor=Austro-Asiatic
states=India
region=Nicobar Islands
speakers=22,100
fam2=Mon-Khmer
fam3=Nicobarese
iso2=mkh|iso3=caq

Car is the most widely spoken of the Nicobarese languages spoken in the Nicobar Islands of India.

Although related distantly to Vietnamese and Khmer, it is typologically much more akin to nearly Austronesian languages such as Nias and Acehnese, with which it forms a linguistic area [Cysouw, Michael; [http://email.eva.mpg.de/~cysouw/pdf/cysouwDGFS2005.pdf Quantitative explorations of the world-wide distribution of rare characteristics, or: the exceptionality of north-western European languages] ; pp. 11-12] .

Car is a VOS language and somewhat agglutinative [ [http://wals.info/languoid/lect/wals_code_nca WALS: Nicobarese] ] . There is a quite complicated verbal suffix system with some infixes, plus distinct genitive and "interrogative" cases for nouns and pronouns [Whitehead, Rev. G.; "Dictionary of the Car (Nicobarese) language"; published 1925 by American Baptist Mission Press; pp. "xxvi"-"xxxii"]

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