Mixed Great Andamanese
Present Great Andamanese; Jeru; Andamanese; Great Andamanese
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Hindi; Bangla; Tamil
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"There were only 36 members in 2001 when the author conducted her first fieldwork..."
2013
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Andaman Islands, India
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"Members are proud to call themselves Jeru speakers even when few of them actually speak it. This is an unexpected response from an endangered or moribund language community." (p. 21-22)
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"The members who are below forty are monolingual in Hindi, which they use as a lingua franca as well as the home language. Some of the members of the younger generation, especially teenage children, also speak a fe words and phrases of English and other Indian languages, such as Bangla and Tamil... Marriage outside the community also further adds to this language pool." (p.25)
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"No child below 15 speaks the native language."
2006
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Andaman Islands, India
12.240707,92.892052
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"The Great Andamanese, especially those who visit Port Blair frequently, have a functional knowledge of Hindi and Bangla. Some of them also understand a few words spoken in English."
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2004
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12.21097,92.944672
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- Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled by research teams at University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute for Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University2012. "Endangered Languages Catalogue Project. Compiled By Research Teams At University of Hawai'i Mānoa and Institute For Language Information and Technology (LINGUIST List) At Eastern Michigan University."
- "Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese" HRELP AbstractAbbi, Anvita. 2004. ""Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese" HRELP Abstract." Online: http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=39.http://www.hrelp.org/grants/projects/index.php?projid=39
- Peter K Austin's top 10 endangered languagesAustin, Peter. 2008. "Peter K Austin's Top 10 Endangered Languages." In The Guardian, Online: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/27/endangered.languages.http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/aug/27/endangered.languages
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