Also known as: Present-day Great Andamanese, Jeru
A koine of the four North Great Andamanese languages, with a grammar based mainly on Jeru, spoken on Strait Island in the Andaman archipelago. Around three elderly speakers remain of one of the world's primary language families, notable for a grammatical system in which nouns and verbs are obligatorily marked with body-part-based prefixes.
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Great Andamanese is a dialect of the Great Andamanese language.
Great Andamanese is primarily spoken in India.
Great Andamanese is part of the South Asia region on DialectAtlas.
Yes — Great Andamanese is also referred to as Present-day Great Andamanese, Jeru.
Great Andamanese is critically endangered. Only a small number of mostly elderly speakers remain, and the variety is at imminent risk of being lost.
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A North Great Andamanese language originally of northern Great Andaman, whose surviving speakers were resettled on Strait Island. Died with Boa Sr in 2010; her speech and songs were recorded by Anvita Abbi in the Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese project.
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