尼科巴語支是由不到十種密切相關語言組成的南亞語系分支，由印度尼科巴群島大多數原住民使用。共有約3萬使用者(2.21萬本地人)。尼科巴語支使用者最多的是卡爾尼科巴語。Paul Sidwell(2015:179)[2]認為尼科巴語支與亞斯里語支組成一個分支。
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尼科巴語支似乎與大尼科巴島原住民使用的尚朋語有關(Blench & Sidwell 2011)，一般認為後者在南亞語系中自成一支。[3]Paul Sidwell(2017)[4]將尚朋語劃入南尼科巴語支。
尼科巴語支語言的形態特徵與南島語系很像，被作為南方大語系假說的證據(Reid 1994)。[5]
Paul Sidwell (2017)的尼科巴語支分類如下。[4]
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian (編). Nicobaric. Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. 2016. Sidwell, Paul. 2015. "Austroasiatic classification." In Jenny, Mathias and Paul Sidwell, eds (2015). The Handbook of Austroasiatic Languages. Leiden: Brill.
Blench, Roger, and Paul Sidwell. 2011. "Is Shom Pen a Distinct Branch?" In Sophana Srichampa and Paul Sidwell, eds. Austroasiatic Studies: Papers from ICAAL 4. Canberra: Pacific Linguistics.
Reid, Lawrence A. 1994. Morphological evidence for Austric. Oceanic Linguistics 33(2):323-344.
- Adams, K. L. (1989). Systems of numeral classification in the Mon–Khmer, Nicobarese and Aslian subfamilies of Austroasiatic. Canberra, A.C.T., Australia: Dept. of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University. ISBN 0-85883-373-5
- Radhakrishnan, R. (1981). The Nancowry Word: Phonology, Affixal Morphology and Roots of a Nicobarese Language. Current Inquiry Into Language and Linguistics 37. Linguistic Research Inc., P.O. Box 5677, Station 'L', Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6C 4G1. ISBN 0-88783-041-2
- Sidwell, Paul. 2018. Proto-Nicobarese phonology （頁面存檔備份，存於互聯網檔案館）. In Papers from the Seventh International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics, 101-131. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society Special Publication No. 3. University of Hawai』i Press.
