Jeru

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Jeru is one of the indigenous Great Andamanese languages historically spoken by the native communities of the Andaman Islands in India.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Great Andamanese language
indigenous language
language
alternativeName Aka-Jeru
surface form: Aka Jeru

Aka-Jeru
Jeru language
continent Asia
country India
endangeredStatusReason language shift to Hindi
small speaker population
ethnicity Great Andamanese
hasLinguisticFeature agglutinative morphology
complex prefixation
noun class–like systems related to body parts
historicalRegion Baratang Island NERFINISHED
Middle Andaman Island NERFINISHED
North Andaman Island NERFINISHED
ISO639-3Code jru
languageFamily Great Andamanese languages
surface form: Great Andamanese language family
locatedInTimeZone Indian Standard Time
partOf indigenous languages of India
languages of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands
region Bay of Bengal
South Asia
spokenBy Great Andamanese
surface form: Great Andamanese people
spokenIn Andaman Islands NERFINISHED
Andaman and Nicobar Islands
status endangered language
moribund language
subclassOf Great Andamanese languages
writingSystem Latin script (used in linguistic transcription)
no native script

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