Shompen language

Shompen
Shompen
Shom Peng
Region	Great Nicobar Island
Ethnicity	Shompen people
Native speakers	400 (2004)
Language family	Possibly a language isolate traditionally considered Austroasiatic Nicobarese? Southern Shompen; ; ;
Dialects	Kalay (west); Keyet (east);
Language codes
ISO 639-3	sii
Glottolog	shom1245
ELP	Shom Peng
	Shompen Location in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and in the Bay of Bengal. Shompen Shompen (Bay of Bengal)
	Coordinates: 7°01′N 93°49′E / 7.02°N 93.81°E
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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.

Partially because the native peoples of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are protected from outside researchers, Shompen is poorly described, with most descriptions being from the 19th century and a few more recently but of poor quality. Shompen appears to be related to the other Southern Nicobarese varieties, however Glottolog considers it a language isolate.

^ Shompen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

[e18-1] Shompen at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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