Great Andamanese languages
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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.
Aliases (5)
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
endangered language family
→
indigenous language family → language family → |
| arealGroup |
Andamanese languages
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|
| associatedEthnicity |
Great Andamanese peoples
→
|
| continent |
Asia
→
|
| country |
India
→
|
| currentSpeakers |
very few speakers
→
|
| distinctFrom |
Ongan languages
→
Sentinelese language → |
| documentationStatus |
poorly documented
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|
| endangeredStatus |
critically endangered
→
nearly extinct → |
| geneticAffiliation |
language isolate family
→
not demonstrably related to other language families → |
| geographicDistribution |
Middle Andaman Island
NERFINISHED
→
North Andaman Island NERFINISHED → South Andaman Island NERFINISHED → surrounding smaller islands → |
| hasMemberLanguage |
Aka-Bale
→
Aka-Bea → Aka-Bo → Aka-Bois → Aka-Bojigyab → Aka-Cari → Aka-Jeru → Aka-Kede → Aka-Kol → Aka-Kora → Aka-Pucikwar → |
| historicalSpeakers |
several thousand people in the 19th century
→
|
| languageFamilyOf |
Great Andamanese language
→
|
| locatedIn |
Bay of Bengal region
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|
| macroArea |
South Asia
→
|
| region |
Great Andaman archipelago
NERFINISHED
→
|
| shiftedTo |
Andaman Hindi
→
Hindi → |
| spokenBy |
Great Andamanese peoples
→
|
| spokenIn |
Andaman Islands
NERFINISHED
→
India → |
| threatenedBy |
colonial impact
→
disease → language shift → |
| typologicalFeature |
agglutinative morphology
→
noun class system based on body parts → rich prefixation → |
| wordOrder |
SOV
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|
Referenced by (18)
| Subject (surface form when different) | Predicate |
|---|---|
|
Bo (Great Andamanese language)
("Great Andamanese language family")
→
Great Andamanese → Great Andamanese ("Andamanese languages") → Jeru ("Great Andamanese language family") → Khora ("Great Andamanese language family") → |
languageFamily |
|
Bo (Great Andamanese language)
("Great Andamanese linguistic area")
→
Cari language ("Great Andamanese languages continuum") → Pucikwar ("Andamanese languages") → |
partOf |
|
Sentinelese language
("Andamanese languages")
→
Sentinelese language → |
possibleRelationTo |
|
Jeru
→
Ongan languages ("Andamanese languages") → |
subclassOf |
|
Great Andamanese languages
("Andamanese languages")
→
|
arealGroup |
|
Bo (Great Andamanese language)
("Andamanese languages")
→
|
belongsTo |
|
Pucikwar
("Andamanese language family")
→
|
classification |
|
Andaman Hindi
→
|
hasInfluenceFrom |
|
Indo-Pacific linguistic area
("Andamanese languages")
→
|
includesLanguageFamily |
|
Jarawa language
→
|
notMutuallyIntelligibleWith |