Car language

Spoken in

Austro Asian

• Mon-Khmer Nikobaresisch

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Caq

Car or Pu is a nikobaresische language that is spoken by about 20,000 people on the northern island of Car Nicobar as their mother tongue. Car ( Pu) is by far the most important of the seven native nikobaresischen languages ​​and is on the Nicobar Islands of another 17,000 people - used as a lingua franca - including immigrants.

For the language of the Latin alphabet is used Car. There is a translation of the Bible from the year 1969.

Linguistic characteristics

Although Car is one Austro Asiatic language, it has typological similarities with geographically nearby Austronesian languages ​​Nias and Achinesisch, with which it forms a small linguistic area ( Braine 1970).

Car is a VOS language, the order of the parts of a sentence in the declarative sentence is therefore usually predicate - object - subject. (Worldwide, this type of very rare, there are only about 2 % of all languages ​​to do so. ) Car is prepositional (ie prepositions it, no postpositions used ), the typical structure of the noun phrase is noun - genitive ( " the Father's house " ) adjective - noun ( " the big house " ), numerals - Noun and Demostrativum - noun. Number, case and Possessivbeziehungen are not marked on nouns, there are three grammatical genders. The morphology is suffigierend with agglutinative tendency. The verb does not have a tense - but one aspect of the system. ( see Web WALS. )