Chaura language

Chaura, or Tutet (Sanënyö) is one of the Nicobarese languages spoken on Chaura Island in the Nicobar Islands.

Chaura
Tutet
Sanënyö
Native toIndia
RegionChaura Island (Sanenya), Nicobars
Native speakers
5,900 (2001 census)[1]
Austroasiatic
Language codes
ISO 639-3crv
Glottologchau1258[2]
Chaura
Chaura
Coordinates: 8.46°N 93.03°E / 8.46; 93.03

It is distantly related to Vietnamese and Khmer.

References

  1. Chaura at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Chaura". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.


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