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Car language

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Native to
  
Native speakers
  
37,000 (2005)

Glottolog
  
carn1240

Region
  
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


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