Native speakers 37,000 (2005) Glottolog carn1240 | ISO 639-3 caq | |
Language family AustroasiaticNicobareseCar |
Car is the most widely spoken of the Nicobarese languages spoken in the Nicobar Islands of India.
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Although related distantly to Vietnamese and Khmer, it is typologically much more akin to nearby Austronesian languages such as Nias and Acehnese, with which it forms a linguistic area.
Car is a VOS language and somewhat agglutinative. There is a quite complicated verbal suffix system with some infixes, as well as distinct genitive and "interrogative" cases for nouns and pronouns.
References
Car language Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA