Nancowry language

Nancowry
	Nang-kauri[1]
	Mūöt
Pronunciation	[mɯːət]
Native to	Nicobar Islands, India
Region	Nancowry Island (Mūöt)
Native speakers	930 (2001 census)[2]
Language family	Austroasiatic Nicobarese Central Nancowry; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	nanc1247[3]

Nancowry (Nancoury, Nankwari, Mūöt) is a Nicobarese language spoken in the central Nicobar Islands. It is not mutually intelligible with the other Central Nicobarese languages, and is distantly related to Vietnamese and Khmer,

References

Edward Horace Man, 1889, A dictionary of the central Nicobarese language
Nicobarese, Central at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nancowry". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[1] Edward Horace Man, 1889, A dictionary of the central Nicobarese language

[2] Nicobarese, Central at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-3] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Nancowry". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.