Teressa language
Teressa | |
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Native to | India |
Region | Teressa (Luroo) and Bompoka Islands, Nicobars |
Native speakers | 2,100 (2001 census)[1] |
Austroasiatic
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Dialects |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 |
tef |
Glottolog |
tere1272 [2] |
Teressa, or Taih-Long, is one of the Nicobarese languages spoken on the Nicobar Islands in India. Bompoka dialect (Pauhut) is distinct. As of 2001, there are 2,080 speakers.
Classification
Teressa belongs to the Nicobarese branch of the Austroasiatic languages in which it forms a subgroup with the Chaura language.
References
- ↑ Teressa at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Teressa". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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