Great Andamanese languages

E80892

endangered language family indigenous language family language family

The Great Andamanese languages are a small, nearly extinct group of indigenous languages once spoken by the Great Andamanese peoples of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.

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All labels observed (9)

Label	Occurrences
Great Andamanese languages canonical	12
Andamanese languages	7
Great Andamanese language group	4
Great Andamanese language family	3
Aka-Bo Great Andamanese	1
Andamanese language family	1
Great Andamanese languages continuum	1
Great Andamanese linguistic area	1
Northern Great Andamanese subgroup	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T640871 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Great Andamanese languages
Context triple: [Great Andamanese, languageFamily, Great Andamanese languages]

A. Penutian languages
Penutian languages are a proposed family of Native American languages spoken primarily in the western United States, noted for their controversial genetic relationships and inclusion of several distinct regional language groups.
B. Taman languages
Taman languages are a small group of closely related Nilo-Saharan languages spoken primarily in eastern Chad and western Sudan.
C. Meso-Melanesian languages
The Meso-Melanesian languages are a subgroup of Oceanic Austronesian languages spoken primarily in parts of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
D. Aboriginal languages
Aboriginal languages are the diverse Indigenous languages of Australia, spoken by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and forming a key part of the continent’s oldest continuous cultures.
E. Batanic languages
Batanic languages are a small subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Batanes Islands of the northern Philippines and parts of Taiwan, known for their unique phonological and lexical features.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Great Andamanese languages
Target entity description: The Great Andamanese languages are a small, nearly extinct group of indigenous languages once spoken by the Great Andamanese peoples of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.

A. Penutian languages
Penutian languages are a proposed family of Native American languages spoken primarily in the western United States, noted for their controversial genetic relationships and inclusion of several distinct regional language groups.
B. Taman languages
Taman languages are a small group of closely related Nilo-Saharan languages spoken primarily in eastern Chad and western Sudan.
C. Meso-Melanesian languages
The Meso-Melanesian languages are a subgroup of Oceanic Austronesian languages spoken primarily in parts of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands.
D. Aboriginal languages
Aboriginal languages are the diverse Indigenous languages of Australia, spoken by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and forming a key part of the continent’s oldest continuous cultures.
E. Batanic languages
Batanic languages are a small subgroup of Austronesian languages spoken primarily in the Batanes Islands of the northern Philippines and parts of Taiwan, known for their unique phonological and lexical features.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (47)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	endangered language family ⓘ indigenous language family ⓘ language family ⓘ
arealGroup	Andamanese languages ⓘ linked to: Great Andamanese languages
associatedEthnicity	Great Andamanese peoples ⓘ linked to: Great Andamanese
continent	Asia ⓘ
country	India ⓘ
currentSpeakers	very few speakers ⓘ
distinctFrom	Ongan languages ⓘ Sentinelese language ⓘ
documentationStatus	poorly documented ⓘ
endangeredStatus	critically endangered ⓘ nearly extinct ⓘ
geneticAffiliation	language isolate family ⓘ not demonstrably related to other language families ⓘ
geographicDistribution	Middle Andaman Island ⓘ North Andaman Island ⓘ South Andaman Island ⓘ surrounding smaller islands ⓘ
hasMemberLanguage	Aka-Bale ⓘ Aka-Bea ⓘ Aka-Bo ⓘ Aka-Bois ⓘ linked to: Aka-Bo Aka-Bojigyab ⓘ linked to: Aka-Bo Aka-Cari ⓘ Aka-Jeru ⓘ Aka-Kede ⓘ Aka-Kol ⓘ Aka-Kora ⓘ Aka-Pucikwar ⓘ linked to: Pucikwar
historicalSpeakers	several thousand people in the 19th century ⓘ
languageFamilyOf	Great Andamanese language ⓘ
locatedIn	Bay of Bengal region ⓘ linked to: Bay of Bengal
macroArea	South Asia ⓘ
region	Great Andaman archipelago ⓘ linked to: Andaman Islands
shiftedTo	Andaman Hindi ⓘ Hindi ⓘ
spokenBy	Great Andamanese peoples ⓘ linked to: Great Andamanese
spokenIn	Andaman Islands ⓘ India ⓘ
threatenedBy	colonial impact ⓘ disease ⓘ language shift ⓘ
typologicalFeature	agglutinative morphology ⓘ noun class system based on body parts ⓘ rich prefixation ⓘ
wordOrder	SOV ⓘ

How these facts were elicited