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A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language: An Ethnolinguistic Study
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Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

7

Domains of Use

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Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

7

Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

7

Ethnic Population

56

Non-monolingual speakers

no monolingual in their heritage language

More about speakers

"There were only 36 members in 2001 when the author conducted her first fieldwork..."

Year of info

2013

Location and Context

Countries

Andaman Islands, India

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Speakers' attitudes

"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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Other languages used

Hindi; Bangla; Tamil

Domains of other languages

all

More on context

"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)

Critically Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

5-6

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

37

Non-monolingual speakers

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More about speakers

"No child below 15 speaks the native language."

Year of info

2006

Location and Context

Countries

Andaman Islands, India

Coordinates

12.240707,92.892052

Location description

Strait Island

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

Strait Island

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Other languages used

Hindi, Bangla

Domains of other languages

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More on context

"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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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2012

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

<20

Domains of Use

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Speaker Number Trends

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2008

Location and Context

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Other writing systems

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Other languages used

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Domains of other languages

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Severely Endangered

Native Speakers Worldwide

37

Domains of Use

No data

Speaker Number Trends

No data

Transmission

No data

Speakers

Second-language speakers and learners

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Semi-speakers

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Child speakers

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Young adult speakers

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Older adult speakers

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Elder Speakers

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Ethnic Population

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Non-monolingual speakers

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Year of info

2004

Location and Context

Countries

Andaman Islands, India

Coordinates

12.21097,92.944672

Location description

Strait Island

Government support

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Institutional support

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Speakers' attitudes

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Standard orthography

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Script (Writing system)

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Other writing systems

Strait Island

More on writing systems

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Other languages used

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Domains of other languages

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More on context

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  1. 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
    2012. "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."
  2. "Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese" HRELP Abstract
    Abbi, 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
  3. Peter K Austin's top 10 endangered languages
    Austin, 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
  4. Personal Communication
    Gregory Anderson. 2012. "Personal Communication."
  5. Endangered Languages of the Andaman Islands
    Anvita Abbi. 2006. "Endangered Languages of the Andaman Islands." 64: München: Lincom.
  6. A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language: An Ethnolinguistic Study
    Abbi, Anvita. 2013. A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language: An Ethnolinguistic Study. (Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages.) Leiden: Brill. 330pp.