Great Andamanese leids

The Great Andamanese leids ar aa near extinct leid family spoken bi the Great Andamanese fowks o the Andaman Islands, a union territory o Indie.

The leids an their clessifeecation

The Andaman leids fall intae twa clear faimilies, Great Andamanese an Ongan, plus ane unattested leid, Sentinelese. These ar ordinar seen as relatit. Hooiver, the seemilarities atween Great Andamanese an Ongan ar so far mainly o a typological morphological naitur, wi little demonstratit common vocabulary. Tharefor, even lang-range resairchers sic as Joseph Greenberg hae expressit douts as tae the validity o Andamanese as a faimily, and Abbi conseeders the survivin Great Andamanese leid tae be an isolate.  The Great Andaman leids ar:

Great Andamanese (spoken bi Great Andamanese fowks)
Southren
Aka-Bea or Bea (extinct)
Akar-Bale or Bale (extinct)
Central
Aka-Kede or Kede (extinct)
Aka-Kol or Kol (extinct)
Oko-Juwoi or Juwoi (extinct)
A-Pucikwar or Pucikwar (extinct)
Northren
Aka-Cari or Chari (extinct)
Aka-Kora or Kora (extinct)
Aka-Jeru or Jeru; 36 speakers in 1997, bilingual in Hindi
Aka-Bo or Bo (extinct)

Joseph Greenberg proposit that Great Andamanese is relatit tae western Papuan leids as members o a lairger phylum he caa'd Indo-Pacific, but this is na generally acceptit bi ither linguists. Stephen Wurm states that the lexical seemilarities atween Great Andamanese an the West Papuan an certain leids o Timor "ar quite strikin an amount tae virtual formal identity […] in a number o instances", but conseeders this tae be due tae a linguistic substratum raither than a direct relationship.

 References 

Category:Agglutinative leids

Category:Leids o Indie