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== Great Andamanese ''koine''== | == Great Andamanese ''koine''== | ||
Great Andamanese koine is based primarily on Jeru, with lexical and | Great Andamanese koine is based primarily on Jeru, with lexical and grammatical influence from other North Great Andamanese languages (Aka-Bo, Aka-Kora and Aka-Cari). It is a head-marking polysynthetic and agglutinative language with a SOV pattern. It has a very elaborate system for marking inalienability,<ref>{{citation |author = Anvita Abbi |title = Endangered Languages of the Andaman Islands |work = LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics, 64.) München |date=2006}}</ref> with seven possessive markers reflecting different body-divisions. These markers appear as proclitics that classify a large number of nouns as dependent categories. It is proposed that the Great Andamanese conceptualise their world through these interdependencies and thus the grammar encodes this important phenomenon in every grammatical category expressing referential, attributive and predicative meaning.<ref> {{citation |author = Anvita Abbi |title = The Unique Structure of the Present Great Andamanese: An Overview of the Grammar |work = VOGA(Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese) |url = http://www.andamanese.net/Grammar_Notes.html |date=2009}}</ref> | ||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||