Endangered Languages Project - Jarawa

Jarawa

^{[aka Jarawa (in Andamans)]}

Classification: South Andamanese

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vulnerable

ALSO KNOWN AS		Jarawa (in Andamans)
CLASSIFICATION		South Andamanese
CODE AUTHORITY		ISO 639-3
LANGUAGE CODE		anq
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Information from: “Descriptive and typological study of Jarawa” . Kumar, Pramod (2012)

Vulnerable

80 percent certain, based on the evidence available
340
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"When I visited the area in Feb–March 2007, the Jarawa population was 273. Now
they have crossed 340 (gathered from personal communication with the
Secretary, Tribal Welfare, Andaman and Nicobar Administration in 2010)." (pg. 20)

DATE OF INFO: 2010

DOMAINS OF USE
TRANSMISSION
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "Jarawas are monolinguals. However, they have now started picking up some
Hindi words from settlers and tourists." (pg. 20)

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
250
Native speakers worldwide
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
Data for the number of native speakers comes from A. Abbi (2006).

PLACES: India

Threatened

40 percent certain, based on the evidence available
~300
Native speakers worldwide
Ethnic population
~300
MORE ON SPEAKER NUMBERS
"A rough estimate is that 70-80 Jarawa reside in Tiroor, about 90-100 in R K Nalla and around 125 in Kadamtalla."

DOMAINS OF USE
OTHER LANGUAGES USED BY THE COMMUNITY
LANGUAGE CONTEXT COMMENTS: "Almost the entire community of Jarawa is monolingual."

PLACES: Andaman Island

LOCATION DESCRIPTION: Tiroor, R K Nalla, and Kadamtalla

Endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
300
Native speakers worldwide

Severely endangered

20 percent certain, based on the evidence available
31
Native speakers worldwide

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Information from: “Glottolog 2.3” . Hammarström, Harald & Forkel, Robert & Haspelmath, Martin & Nordhoff, Sebastian (2014)