Nicobarese is an isolated group of six closely related Mon-Khmer languages spoken in the Nicobar Islands of India. They have a total of about 30,000 speakers (22,100 native). The majority of Nicobarese speakers use the Car language .
The morphological similarities between Nicobarese languages and Austronesian languages have been used to help prove the Austric hypothesis.
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