Great Andamanese languages
| Great Andamanese | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Formerly on Great Andaman Island |
| Ethnicity | Great Andamanese people |
| Linguistic classification | One of the world's primary language families |
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| Glottolog | grea1241 |
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 form the unrelated Ongan languages family). | |
Great andamanese [sic] is classified as Critically Endangered according to the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
The Great Andamanese languages are a nearly extinct language family of half a dozen languages once spoken by the Great Andamanese peoples of the northern and central Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, and part of the Andamanese sprachbund.