Car language

Car
Car
Pū
Pronunciation	[puː]
Native to	India
Region	Nicobar Islands
Native speakers	37,000 (2005)
Language family	Austroasiatic Nicobarese Car; ;
Writing system	Latin script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	caq
Glottolog	carn1240
ELP	Car Nicobarese
	Car Car
	Coordinates: 9°11′N 92°46′E / 9.19°N 92.77°E

Car (Pū) is the most widely spoken Nicobarese language of the Nicobar Islands in the Bay of Bengal.

Although a member of the Austroasiatic language family, it is typologically much more akin to nearby Austronesian languages such as Nias and Acehnese, with which it forms a linguistic area.^[2] Car is a VOS language and somewhat agglutinative.^[3] There is a quite complicated verbal suffix system with some infixes, as well as distinct genitive and "interrogative" cases for nouns and pronouns.^[4]

^ Car at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)
^ Cysouw, Michael; Quantitative explorations of the world-wide distribution of rare characteristics, or: the exceptionality of north-western European languages Archived 2009-05-14 at the Wayback Machine; pp. 11-12
^ WALS: Nicobarese
^ Whitehead, Rev. G.; Dictionary of the Car (Nicobarese) language; published 1925 by American Baptist Mission Press; pp. xxvi-xxxii