Southern Nicobarese is a Nicobarese language, spoken on the Southern Nicobar Islands of Little Nicobar (Ong), Great Nicobar (Lo'ong), and a couple small neighboring islands, Kondul (Lamongshe) and Pulo Milo (Milo Island).

Parmanand Lal (1977:23)[2] reported 11 Nicobarese villages with 192 people in all, located mostly along the western coast of Great Nicobar Island.

Pulo-babi village was the site of Lal's extensive ethnographic study.

Lal (1977:104) also reported the presence of several Shompen villages in the interior of Great Nicobar Island.

Paul Sidwell (2017)[3] published in ICAAL 2017 conference on Nicobarese languages.