Northern Andamanese language
| Northern Andamanese | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
| Region | Andaman Islands; North Andaman island |
| Ethnicity | Andamanese |
Native speakers | 3 (2020)[1] |
Great Andamanese
| |
| Dialects | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | Variously:aci – Aka-Cariack – Aka-Koraakj – Aka-Jeruakm – Aka-Bo |
| Glottolog | nort2678 |
 Great andamanese [sic] is classified as Critically Endangered according to the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger.[2] | |
Northern Andamanese is the critically endangered native language of North Andaman Island. It is closely related to Akakede and seems to have consisted of four mutually intelligible dialects: Akachari (Cari), Akakhora (Kora), Akabo (Bo), and Akajeru (Jeru). Jeru is the only one with speakers remaining.[3][4]
When the North Andamanese people were resettled to Strait Island, a koiné developed from the resulting mixture of dialects. It went extinct in the early 2000s.
References
[edit]- ↑ Akajeru at Ethnologue (25th ed., 2022)
- ↑ Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 31.
- ↑ Zamponi, Raoul; Comrie, Bernard (2021). A grammar of Akajeru: fragments of a traditional North Andamanese dialect (PDF). Grammars of world and minority languages. London: UCL Press. ISBN 978-1-80008-093-5.
- ↑ Bernard Comrie & Raoul Zamponi. 2019. Subgrouping and lexical distance in the Great Andamanese family. In Wortschätze & Sprachwelten, Beiträge zu Sprachtypologie, kontrastiver Wort- bzw. Wortschatzforschung und Pragmatik, edited by Michail L. Kotin, 35–57. Berlin: Peter Lang
