Shompen language
Nicobarese language of Great Nicobar Island / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Shompen, or Shom Peng is a language or group of languages spoken on Great Nicobar Island in the Indian union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, in the Indian Ocean, northwest of Sumatra, Indonesia.
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Shompen | |
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Shom Peng | |
Region | Great Nicobar Island |
Ethnicity | Shompen people |
Native speakers | 400 (2004)[1] |
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ISO 639-3 | sii |
Glottolog | shom1245 |
ELP | Shom Peng |
Location in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and in the Bay of Bengal. Show map of Andaman and Nicobar Islands | |
Coordinates: 7.02°N 93.81°E / 7.02; 93.81 | |
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Partially because the native peoples of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are protected from outside researchers, Shompen is poorly described, with most descriptions being from the 19th century and a few more recently but of poor quality. Shompen appears to be related to the other Southern Nicobarese varieties, however Glottolog considers it a language isolate.