Great Andamanese languages
The Great Andamanese languages are a nearly extinct language family once spoken by the Great Andamanese peoples of the northern and central Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, and part of the Andamanese sprachbund.
| Great Andamanese | |
|---|---|
| Ethnicity | Great Andamanese people |
| Geographic distribution | Formerly on Great Andaman Island |
| Linguistic classification | One of the world's primary language families |
| Subdivisions | |
| ISO 639-3 | (Great Andamanese, Mixed) gac (Great Andamanese, Mixed) |
| Glottolog | grea1241 |
| ELP | Mixed Great Andamanese |
Ethnolinguistic map of the precolonial Andaman Islands. The languages with prefixes (which mean "language") are Great Andamanese. Note that on southernmost islands, Jarawa, Onge, Jangil† and possibly Sentinelese are forming the unrelated Ongan languages family). | |
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