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Car language
Austroasiatic language spoken in the Nicobar Islands, India From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Car (Pū) is the most widely spoken Nicobarese language of the Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
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Although a member of the Austroasiatic language family, it is typologically much more akin to nearby Austronesian languages such as Nias and Acehnese, with which it forms a linguistic area.[3] Car is a VOS language and somewhat agglutinative.[4] There is a quite complicated verbal suffix system with some infixes, as well as distinct genitive and "interrogative" cases for nouns and pronouns.[5]
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Phonology
Consonants
- The alveolar flap can typically be pre-stopped. Before a voiceless consonant, its pre-articulation is voiceless as [ᵗɾ], and elsewhere it is voiced [ᵈɾ].
Vowels
- /æ/ only occurs in English loanwords.
- Vowel sounds are also typically short when occurring before an /h/.[6]
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Morphology
Shared morphological alternations: the old AA causative has two allomorphs, prefix ha- with monosyllabic stems, infix -um- in disyllabic stems (note: *p > h onset in unstressed σ).
- ɲa - 'to eat' / haɲaː 'to feed'
- pɯɲ - 'to cry' / hapɯɲ-ɲɔː 'to make cry'
- kucik - 'be palatable' / kumcik 'to taste'
- kale - 'brave' / kumle 'bravery'
Vocabulary
Paul Sidwell (2017)[7] published in ICAAL 2017 conference on Nicobarese languages.
References
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