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{{Infobox language | {{Infobox language | ||
|name=Mixed Great Andamanese | |name=Mixed Great Andamanese | ||
|altname= Great Andamanese '' | |altname= Great Andamanese ''koiné'' | ||
|states=[[India]] | |states=[[India]] | ||
|region=[[Strait Island]] | |region=[[Strait Island]] | ||
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The '''Jeru language''', '''''Aka-Jeru''''' (also known as ''Yerawa'', not to be confused with [[Jarawa language (Andaman Islands)|Järawa]]), is a nearly extinct [[Great Andamanese languages|Great Andamanese]] language, of the Northern group. Jeru was spoken in the interior and south coast of [[North Andaman]] and on Sound Island. A ''[[Koiné language| | The '''Jeru language''', '''''Aka-Jeru''''' (also known as ''Yerawa'', not to be confused with [[Jarawa language (Andaman Islands)|Järawa]]), is a nearly extinct [[Great Andamanese languages|Great Andamanese]] language, of the Northern group. Jeru was spoken in the interior and south coast of [[North Andaman]] and on Sound Island. A ''[[Koiné language|koiné]]'' of Aka-Jeru and other northern Great Andamanese languages was once spoken on [[Strait Island]]; the last semi-fluent speaker, Nao Jr., died in 2009.<ref name=e23b/> | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
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See [[Great Andamanese languages]] for more general grammatical description. | See [[Great Andamanese languages]] for more general grammatical description. | ||
== Great Andamanese '' | == Great Andamanese ''koiné''== | ||
Great Andamanese | Great Andamanese koiné 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== | ||
The Great Andamanese '' | The Great Andamanese ''koiné'' has a seven-vowel system. | ||
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==Vocabulary== | ==Vocabulary== | ||
[[File:PGA varnamala.png|thumb|300px|PGA varnamala]] | [[File:PGA varnamala.png|thumb|300px|PGA varnamala]] | ||
'' | ''Koiné'' vocabulary:<ref>{{citation |title=Andamani Varnamala |publisher=Centre for Linguistics Jawaharlal Nehru University |url=http://www.andamanese.net/varnamaala/andamani%20varnamaala.pdf |year=2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=GA Lexicon |publisher=VOGA |url=http://www.andamanese.net/GA-Lexicon/lexicon/index.htm }}</ref> | ||
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