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{{language |
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|name=Car |
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|nativename=Car |
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|familycolor=Austro-Asiatic |
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|states=[[India]] |
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|region=[[Nicobar Islands]] |
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|speakers=22,100 |
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|fam2=[[Mon-Khmer languages|Mon-Khmer]] |
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|fam3=[[Nicobarese languages|Nicobarese]] |
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|iso2=mkh|iso3=caq}} |
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'''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 language|Vietnamese]] and [[Khmer language|Khmer]], it is typologically much more akin to nearly [[Austronesian languages]] such as [[Nias language|Nias]] and [[Acehnese language|Acehnese]], with which it forms a [[linguistic area]]<ref>Cysouw, Michael; [http://email.eva.mpg.de/~cysouw/pdf/cysouwDGFS2005.pdf Quantitative explorations of the world-wide distribution of rare characteristics, or: the exceptionality of north-western European languages]; pp. 11-12</ref>. |
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Car is a [[Verb Object Subject|VOS]] language and somewhat [[agglutinative language|agglutinative]]<ref>[http://wals.info/languoid/lect/wals_code_nca WALS: Nicobarese]</ref>. There is a quite complicated verbal [[suffix]] system with some [[infix]]es, plus distinct genitive and "interrogative" cases for nouns and pronouns<ref>Whitehead, Rev. G.; ''Dictionary of the Car (Nicobarese) language''; published 1925 by American Baptist Mission Press; pp. ''xxvi''-''xxxii''</ref> |
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==References== |
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[[Category:Mon-Khmer languages]] |
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[[Category:Culture of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands]] |
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[[br:Kareg Inizi Nikobar]] |
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[[ru:Кар (язык)]] |
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