Nancowry

WALS coordinates: 8° 3′ N, 93° 30′ E

spoken in India

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:	Nicobarese, Central
Ruhlen:	Nicobarese
Routledge:	Nicobarese
Other:	Nicobarese (Nancowry), Nicobarese
ISO 639-3:	ncb

Feature	Value	References
Phonology
Consonant Inventories	Moderately small
Vowel Quality Inventories	Large (7-14)
Consonant-Vowel Ratio	Moderately low
Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives	No voicing constrast
Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems	Other
Uvular Consonants	None
Glottalized Consonants	No glottalized consonants
Lateral Consonants	/l/, no obstruent laterals
Front Rounded Vowels	None
Syllable Structure	Moderately complex
Tone	No tones
Absence of Common Consonants	All present
Presence of Uncommon Consonants	None
Morphology
Reduplication	Productive full and partial reduplication
Nominal Categories
Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes	No possessive affixes
Verbal Categories
Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes	No tense-aspect inflection
Word Order
Order of Subject, Object and Verb	No dominant order
Order of Subject and Verb	VS
Order of Object and Verb	VO
Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	Prepositions
Order of Genitive and Noun	Noun-Genitive
Order of Adjective and Noun	Noun-Adjective
Order of Demonstrative and Noun	Demonstrative-Noun
Order of Degree Word and Adjective	Adjective-Degree word
Position of Polar Question Particles	Initial
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase	VO and Prepositions
Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun	VO and NAdj
Simple Clauses
Polar Questions	Question particle