 Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Andaman and Nicobar Islands Language
Official languages of Andaman and Nicobar Islands are Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam, Telugu, Punjabi, Tamil, Nicobarese and English.
The Nicobarese languages form an isolated group of six closely-related Mon-Khmer languages from the Austro-Asiatic language family, which are spoken by the indigenous inhabitants of the Nicobar Islands of India. They have a total of about 30,000 speakers (22,100 native). The majority of Nicobarese speakers use the Car language.
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