Where have all the Speakers gone?
a sociolinguistic study of the Great Andamanese

by Prof. Anvita Abbi, Bidisha Som, and Aloka Das
Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

This article is reprinted with permission from Prof. Anvita Abbi from Indian Linguistics, 2007, 68-3-4:325-343

Map 1

Geographic distribution of the ten varieties of Great Andamanese in the 19th century.

(courtesy: www.andaman.org)

 

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