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Shompen (Shom Peng) is a poorly known language, or languages, spoken on Great Nicobar Island in the Indian union territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Indian Ocean south of Burma. Partially because the native peoples of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are protected from outside researchers, Shompen is poorly described, with much of the data from the 19th century, and the little 20th–21st century data of poor quality. However, Roger Blench and Paul Sidwell demonstrate that it is an Austroasiatic language, though they suggest that it might constitute a distinct branch of that family. ==Speakers== The Shompen are hunter-gatherers living in the hilly hinterland of the Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve. Population estimates are approximately 400, although no census has been conducted. Parmanand Lal (1977:104)〔Lal, Parmanand. 1977. ''Great Nicobar Island: study in human ecology''. Calcutta: Anthropological Survey of India, Govt. of India.〕 reported the presence of several Shompen villages in the interior of Great Nicobar Island. *Dakade (10 km northeast of Pulo-babi, a Nicobarese village on the western coast of Great Nicobar; 15 persons and 4 huts) *Puithey (16 km southeast of Pulo-babi) *Tataiya (inhabited by the Dogmar River Shompen group, who had moved from Tataiya to Pulo-kunyi between 1960 and 1977) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Shompen language」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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