Great Andamanese languages
E80892
The Great Andamanese languages are a small, nearly extinct group of indigenous languages once spoken by the Great Andamanese peoples of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.
All labels observed (9)
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
endangered language family
ⓘ
indigenous language family ⓘ language family ⓘ |
| arealGroup |
Great Andamanese languages
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Andamanese languages
|
| associatedEthnicity |
Great Andamanese
ⓘ
surface form:
Great Andamanese peoples
|
| continent | Asia ⓘ |
| country | India ⓘ |
| currentSpeakers | very few speakers ⓘ |
| distinctFrom |
Ongan languages
ⓘ
Sentinelese language ⓘ |
| documentationStatus | poorly documented ⓘ |
| endangeredStatus |
critically endangered
ⓘ
nearly extinct ⓘ |
| geneticAffiliation |
language isolate family
ⓘ
not demonstrably related to other language families ⓘ |
| geographicDistribution |
Middle Andaman Island
ⓘ
North Andaman Island ⓘ South Andaman Island ⓘ surrounding smaller islands ⓘ |
| hasMemberLanguage |
Aka-Bale
ⓘ
Aka-Bea ⓘ Aka-Bo ⓘ Aka-Bo ⓘ
surface form:
Aka-Bois
Aka-Bo ⓘ
surface form:
Aka-Bojigyab
Aka-Cari ⓘ Aka-Jeru ⓘ Aka-Kede ⓘ Aka-Kol ⓘ Aka-Kora ⓘ Pucikwar ⓘ
surface form:
Aka-Pucikwar
|
| historicalSpeakers | several thousand people in the 19th century ⓘ |
| languageFamilyOf | Great Andamanese language ⓘ |
| locatedIn |
Bay of Bengal
ⓘ
surface form:
Bay of Bengal region
|
| macroArea | South Asia ⓘ |
| region |
Andaman Islands
ⓘ
surface form:
Great Andaman archipelago
|
| shiftedTo |
Andaman Hindi
ⓘ
Hindi ⓘ |
| spokenBy |
Great Andamanese
ⓘ
surface form:
Great Andamanese peoples
|
| spokenIn |
Andaman Islands
ⓘ
India ⓘ |
| threatenedBy |
colonial impact
ⓘ
disease ⓘ language shift ⓘ |
| typologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
ⓘ
noun class system based on body parts ⓘ rich prefixation ⓘ |
| wordOrder | SOV ⓘ |
Referenced by (31)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Andamanese languages
subject surface form:
Cari language
this entity surface form:
Great Andamanese languages continuum
subject surface form:
Bo (Great Andamanese language)
this entity surface form:
Great Andamanese language family
subject surface form:
Bo (Great Andamanese language)
this entity surface form:
Great Andamanese linguistic area
subject surface form:
Bo (Great Andamanese language)
this entity surface form:
Andamanese languages
this entity surface form:
Great Andamanese language family
this entity surface form:
Andamanese languages
this entity surface form:
Andamanese languages
this entity surface form:
Andamanese languages
this entity surface form:
Andamanese language family
this entity surface form:
Great Andamanese language family
this entity surface form:
Andamanese languages
this entity surface form:
Aka-Bo Great Andamanese
this entity surface form:
Great Andamanese language group
this entity surface form:
Northern Great Andamanese subgroup
this entity surface form:
Great Andamanese language group
this entity surface form:
Great Andamanese language group
this entity surface form:
Great Andamanese language group