大アンダマン語族(だいアンダマンごぞく、英語: Great Andamanese languages)は、インド洋に浮かぶアンダマン諸島(インド領内)北中部(大アンダマン諸島)でネグリトの大アンダマン人によって話されている語族である。アカ=ジェル語を基にしたクレオール言語を流暢に話す最後の人物は2009年に亡くなった[3]。近年では下位言語間の差異が減衰し、「アカ=ジェロ語(Aka-Jero)」や大アンダマン語として知られるコイネー言語として共通した言語に収斂しつつある。系統はおそらくオンガン語族とは別系統であり、インド・太平洋大語族に含まれるとする仮説がある。
"Kuro-t'on-mik-in Mr. Pigeon, God ?-slep-t, wood fire-with stealing-was fire the.late Lech-to he, then he ?-fire-make-did fire-with Karat-tatak-emi-at."
^Lewis, M. Paul; Simons, Gary F.; Fennig, Charles D., eds. (2015). “Mixed Great Andamanese”. Ethnologue: Languages of the World (18th ed.). Dallas, Texas: SIL International.
^Jayanta Sarkar (1990), The Jarawa, Anthropological Survey of India, ISBN81-7046-080-8, https://books.google.com/?id=HxBuAAAAMAAJ, "... The Great Andamanese population was large till 1858 when it started declining ... In 1901, their number was reduced to only 600 and in 1961 to a mere 19 ..."
^Abbi, Anvita, Bidisha Som and Alok Das. 2007. "Where Have All The Speakers Gone? A Sociolinguistic Study of the Great Andamanese." Indian Linguistics, 68.3-4: 325-343.
^ abAbbi, Anvita (2008). "Is Great Andamanese genealogically and typologically distinct from Onge and Jarawa?" Language Sciences, doi:10.1016/j.langsci.2008.02.002
^ abAbbi, Anvita (2006). Endangered Languages of the Andaman Islands. Germany: Lincom GmbH.
^ abcTemple, Richard C. (1902). A Grammar of the Andamanese Languages, being Chapter IV of Part I of the Census Report on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Superintendent's Printing Press: Port Blair.
^ abAbbi, Anvita (2013). A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language. Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages, Volume 4.
^Yadav, Yogendra (1985). Great Andamanese: a preliminary study. Canberra: The Australian National University.: Pacific Linguistics. pp. 185-214
^Greenberg, Joseph (1971). "The Indo-Pacific hypothesis." Current trends in linguistics vol. 8, ed. by Thomas A. Sebeok, 807.71. The Hague: Mouton.
^Man, E.H. (1923). Dictionary of the South Andaman Language. British India Press: Bombay
書誌情報
Yadav, Yogendra. 1985. "Great Andamanese: a preliminary study." Pacific Linguistics, Series A, No. 67: 185-214. Canberra: The Australian National University.
Abbi, Anvita. 2011. Dictionary of the Great Andamanese language. Port Blair: Ratna Sagar.
Abbi, Anvita. 2013. A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language. Brill's Studies in South and Southwest Asian Languages, Volume 4.