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Shompen, or Shom Peng is a language or group of languages spoken on Great Nicobar Island in the Indian union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, in the Indian Ocean, northwest of Sumatra, Indonesia.
- Shompen people
Regions with significant populations. India. Andaman and...
- Southern Nicobarese language
Southern Nicobarese is a Nicobarese language, spoken on the...
- Shompen people
Jul 6, 2021 · There are an estimated 400 Shompen people who are thought to live in three villages: Dakade, Puithey and Tataiya. Some lists of Shompen words and other information about the language were collected in the late 19th century, and some other research has been undertaken since then. Shompen is also known as Shobang, Shom Pen, Shom Peng or Shompeng.
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Shompen, or Shom Peng is a language or group of languages spoken on Great Nicobar Island in the Indian union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, in the Indian Ocean, northwest of Sumatra, Indonesia.
The Nicobarese languages are usually classified into four groups: North Nicobar, including the Car, Chowra, Teressa, and Bompaka languages; Central Nicobar, including the Camorta, Nancowry, Trinkat, and Katchall languages; South Nicobar, including the Coastal Great Nicobar and the Little Nicobar languages; and Inland Great Nicobar, including the...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The language of the Shom Pen: a language isolate in the Nicobar islands. 1. Introduction. The Shom Pen are foragers inhabiting the centre of Great Nicobar, the principal island in the Nicobar chain west of Burma and north of Sumatra (Photo 1). The Nicobars were known to Ptolemy and the Arab geographers, but reliable information about them only ...
