尼科巴語支
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。
| 尼科巴語支 | |
|---|---|
| Nicobaric | |
| 使用族群 | 尼科巴人 |
| 地理分佈 | 印度尼科巴群島 |
| 譜系學分類 | 南亞語系
|
| 原始語言 | Proto-Nicobarese |
| 分支 | |
| – | |
| Glottolog | nico1262[1] |
 尼科巴群島。卡爾尼科巴語位於頂部。 | |
 尼科巴語支 | |
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。
語言
由北至南，尼科巴語支語言有：
系屬分類
Paul Sidwell (2017)的尼科巴語支分類如下。[4]
另見
- 尚朋語
- 原始尼科巴語構擬列表（維基詞典）
參考
- ^ 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.
- ^ 4.0 4.1 Sidwell, Paul. 2017. "Proto-Nicobarese Phonology, Morphology, Syntax: work in progress". International Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics 7, Kiel, Sept 29-Oct 1, 2017.
- ^ Reid, Lawrence A. 1994. Morphological evidence for Austric. Oceanic Linguistics 33(2):323-344.
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- 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，存於網際網路檔案館）. 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.