Southern Nicobarese
Sambelong
Native to	India
Region	Little Nicobar, Great Nicobar
Native speakers	7,500 (2001 census)[1]
Language family	Austroasiatic Nicobarese Southern Southern Nicobarese
Dialects	Great Nicobarese Little Nicobarese
Language codes
ISO 639-3	nik
Glottolog	sout2689
ELP	Southern Nicobarese
Southern Nicobarese Location in the Bay of Bengal.
Coordinates: 6°50′N 93°48′E / 6.83°N 93.80°E / 6.83; 93.80

Southern Nicobarese is a Nicobarese language, spoken on the Southern Nicobar Islands of Little Nicobar (Ong), Great Nicobar (Lo'ong), and a couple small neighboring islands, Kondul (Lamongshe) and Pulo Milo (Milo Island). Each is said to have its own dialect.

Distribution

Parmanand Lal (1977:23)^[2] reported 11 Nicobarese villages with 192 people in all, located mostly along the western coast of Great Nicobar Island. Pulo-babi village was the site of Lal's extensive ethnographic study.

• Pulo-kunyi
• Kopenhaiyen
• Kashindon
• Koye
• Pulo-babi
• Batadiya
• Kakaiyu
• Pulo-pucca
• Ehengloy
• Pulo-baha
• Chinge

Lal (1977:104) also reported the presence of several Shompen villages in the interior of Great Nicobar Island.

• Dakade (10 km northeast of Pulo-babi, a Nicobarese village; 15 persons and 4 huts)
• Puithey (16 km southeast of Pulo-babi)
• Tataiya (inhabited by the Dogmar River Shompen group, who had moved from Tataiya to Pulo-kunyi between 1960 and 1977)

Vocabulary

Paul Sidwell (2017)^[3] published in ICAAL 2017 conference on Nicobarese languages.