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.

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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

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Great Andamanese languageFamily Great Andamanese languages
Great Andamanese languageFamily Great Andamanese languages
this entity surface form: Andamanese languages
Cari partOf Great Andamanese languages
subject surface form: Cari language
this entity surface form: Great Andamanese languages continuum
Bo languageFamily Great Andamanese languages
subject surface form: Bo (Great Andamanese language)
this entity surface form: Great Andamanese language family
Bo partOf Great Andamanese languages
subject surface form: Bo (Great Andamanese language)
this entity surface form: Great Andamanese linguistic area
Bo belongsTo Great Andamanese languages
subject surface form: Bo (Great Andamanese language)
this entity surface form: Andamanese languages
Andaman Hindi hasInfluenceFrom Great Andamanese languages
Khora languageFamily Great Andamanese languages
this entity surface form: Great Andamanese language family
Sentinelese language possibleRelationTo Great Andamanese languages
this entity surface form: Andamanese languages
Sentinelese language possibleRelationTo Great Andamanese languages
Great Andamanese languages arealGroup Great Andamanese languages self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Andamanese languages
Indo-Pacific linguistic area includesLanguageFamily Great Andamanese languages
this entity surface form: Andamanese languages
Pucikwar partOf Great Andamanese languages
this entity surface form: Andamanese languages
Pucikwar classification Great Andamanese languages
this entity surface form: Andamanese language family
Jeru subclassOf Great Andamanese languages
Jeru languageFamily Great Andamanese languages
this entity surface form: Great Andamanese language family
Ongan languages subclassOf Great Andamanese languages
this entity surface form: Andamanese languages
Jarawa language notMutuallyIntelligibleWith Great Andamanese languages
Aka-Bo subclassOf Great Andamanese languages
Aka-Bo hasAlternativeName Great Andamanese languages
this entity surface form: Aka-Bo Great Andamanese
Aka-Bo language partOf Great Andamanese languages
this entity surface form: Great Andamanese language group
Bo language languageFamily Great Andamanese languages
Bo language partOf Great Andamanese languages
this entity surface form: Northern Great Andamanese subgroup
Boa Sr languageFamily Great Andamanese languages
Bo people languageFamily Great Andamanese languages
Aka-Cari subclassOf Great Andamanese languages
Aka-Kol partOf Great Andamanese languages
Aka-Jeru isPartOf Great Andamanese languages
this entity surface form: Great Andamanese language group
Aka-Kede partOf Great Andamanese languages
this entity surface form: Great Andamanese language group
Aka-Kora partOf Great Andamanese languages
this entity surface form: Great Andamanese language group
Andamanese hasLanguageFamily Great Andamanese languages