Jarawa
Jarawa (in Andamans)
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"When I visited the area in Feb–March 2007, the Jarawa population was 273. Now they have crossed 340 (gathered from personal communication with the Secretary, Tribal Welfare, Andaman and Nicobar Administration in 2010)." (pg. 20)
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"Jarawas are monolinguals. However, they have now started picking up some Hindi words from settlers and tourists." (pg. 20)
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~300
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"A rough estimate is that 70-80 Jarawa reside in Tiroor, about 90-100 in R K Nalla and around 125 in Kadamtalla."
2006
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"Almost the entire community of Jarawa is monolingual."
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Data for the number of native speakers comes from A. Abbi (2006).
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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."
- Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16th Edition (2009)Lewis, M. Paul (ed.). 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, 16 edn. http://www.ethnologue.com/home.asp. (15 February, 2011.)http://www.ethnologue.com/
- Atlas of the World’s Languages in DangerMoseley, Christopher (ed.). 2010. Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger, 3rd edn. http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas. (03 June, 2011.)http://www.unesco.org/culture/en/endangeredlanguages/atlas
- World Oral Literature Project"World Oral Literature Project." Online: http://www.oralliterature.org.http://www.oralliterature.org
- Descriptive and typological study of JarawaKumar, Pramod. 2012. Descriptive and Typological Study of Jarawa. PhD Dissertation, Jawaharlal Nehru University.http://pubman.mpdl.mpg.de/pubman/item/escidoc:1896628:1/component/escidoc:1896627/jarawa_kumar2012_o.pdf
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