Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of an indigenous people of the Andaman Islands.
  • noun The language of the Andamanese, of no known linguistic affiliation.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to the Andaman islands, or to their inhabitants.
  • A native or the natives of the Andaman islands, situated in the eastern part of the bay of Bengal.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun A minor language family spoken on the Andaman Islands.
  • adjective Of or relating to the Andaman Islands.
  • adjective Of or relating to the Andamanese language family.

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Examples

  • Added Singh, "Our project to sample the disappearing tribes of the Andaman Islands has been more successful than we could have hoped, as the Andamanese are the only surviving remnant of the ancient colonizers of South Asia."

    innovations-report 2009

  • Professor Anvita Abbi, a linguist, said the Jarawa were in danger of going the same way as the Great Andamanese tribe, who once numbered 5,000 but are now down to 56 people.

    'Human safaris' in India: tour operators face prison 2012

  • "The Great Andamanese were first massacred, then all but wiped out by paternalistic policies which left them ravaged by epidemics of disease, and robbed of their land and independence," said Survival International's director, Stephen Corry.

    So I was surfing.... 2010

  • Taking its name from a now-extinct tribe, Bo is one of the 10 Great Andamanese languages, which are thought to date back to pre-Neolithic human settlement of south-east Asia.

    So I was surfing.... 2010

  • "Her loss is not just the loss of the Great Andamanese community, it is a loss of several disciplines of studies put together, including anthropology, linguistics, history, psychology, and biology," Narayan Choudhary, a linguist of Jawaharlal Nehru University who was part of an Andaman research team, wrote on his webpage.

    So I was surfing.... 2010

  • "Her loss is not just the loss of the Great Andamanese community, it is a loss of several disciplines of studies put together, including anthropology, linguistics, history, psychology, and biology," Narayan Choudhary, a linguist of Jawaharlal Nehru University who was part of an Andaman research team, wrote on his webpage.

    So I was surfing.... 2010

  • According to the NGO Survival International, the number of Great Andamanese has declined in the past 150 years from about 5,000 to 52.

    So I was surfing.... 2010

  • Taking its name from a now-extinct tribe, Bo is one of the 10 Great Andamanese languages, which are thought to date back to pre-Neolithic human settlement of south-east Asia.

    So I was surfing.... 2010

  • According to the NGO Survival International, the number of Great Andamanese has declined in the past 150 years from about 5,000 to 52.

    So I was surfing.... 2010

  • Taking its name from a now-extinct tribe, Bo is one of the 10 Great Andamanese languages, which are thought to date back to pre-Neolithic human settlement of south-east Asia.

    So I was surfing.... 2010

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