Back زبانهای آندامانی بزرگ Persian Isojen-Andamaanien kielet Finnish Velikoandamanski jezici Croatian 大アンダマン語族 Japanese 대안다만어족 Korean Северноандаманские языки Russian Great Andamanese leids SCO Ngữ hệ Andaman Lớn Vietnamese 大安达曼语系 Chinese
| Great Andamanese | |
|---|---|
| Geographic distribution | Formerly on Great Andaman Island |
| Ethnicity | Great Andamanese people |
| Linguistic classification | One of the world's primary language families[1] |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| 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[2] | |
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.
- ^ Blevins, Juliette (2007), "A Long Lost Sister of Proto-Austronesian? Proto-Ongan, Mother of Jarawa and Onge of the Andaman Islands" (PDF), Oceanic Linguistics, 46 (1): 154–198, doi:10.1353/ol.2007.0015, S2CID 143141296, archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-01-11
- ^ Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (Report) (3rd ed.). UNESCO. 2010. p. 31.