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Great Andamanese

Great Andamanese is documented on Dialect Atlas across 1 dialect: Great Andamanese.

Dialects of Great Andamanese

Great AndamanesePresent-day Great Andamanese · JeruA 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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