India’s Great Nicobar megaproject threatens indigenous languages, ecology, and survival. A hidden linguicide unfolds amid “development.” Read why it matters now.

Although the previous theories suggested that the linguistic ancestors of the Nicobarese settled in the Nicobar archipelago during the early Holocene, about 11,700 years ago, this genetic study co-led ...

Chowra is an 8 sq.km. dot on the Andaman sea, part of the Nicobar archipelago. And on it live 1,350 people, the Nicobarese islanders of Chowra. They grow food in shared gardens, catch fish, rear pigs, ...

Lamongse language is actually a dialect of Southern Nicobarese language, which is the part of Austroasiatic language family. This dialect is particularly mostly spoken within the Kondul Island, which ...

The 25,000-strong Nicobarese population appears to have a significant ancestral connection with Austroasiatic populations across South and Southeast Asia and, they could have settled in the region ...