Aka-Jeru
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Jeru, or Akajeru (also known as Yerawa, not to be confused with Järawa), is a moribund dialect of the Northern Andamanese language, and the last surviving variety of the Great Andamanese language family. Jeru was spoken in the interior and south coast of North Andaman and on Sound Island. A koiné of the Northern Andamanese dialects, based principally on Akajeru, was once spoken on Strait Island; the last semi-fluent speaker of this, Nao Jr., died in 2009.
Key facts
- Language.name
- Jeru
- Language.states
- India
- Language.region
- Andaman Islands; interior and south North Andaman island, Sound island. Presently Strait Island
- Language.ref
- e28
- Language.speakers
- 3
- Language.date
- 2020
- Language.familycolor
- Andamanese
- Language.fam1
- Great Andamanese
- Language.fam2
- Northern Andamanese – Kede
- Language.fam3
- Northern Andamanese
- Language.iso3
- akj
- Language.glotto
- akaj1239
- Language.glottorefname
- Akajeru
- Language.ethnicity
- Jeru
- Language.map2
- Lang Status 20-CR.svg
- Language.script
- Devanagari
- Language.map
- Languages_and_dialects_of_the_Andaman_Islands_at_British_contact.png
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- Great Andamanese
- Country
- India
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- number of speakers, writers, or signers
- 0
- linguistic typology
- agglutinative language
- topic's main category
- Category:Jeru language
- indigenous to
- Andaman Islands
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Encyclopedic overview
9 sectionsContents
- History
- Phonology
- Consonants
- Vowels
- Grammar
- Sample text
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
Jeru, or Akajeru (also known as Yerawa, not to be confused with Järawa), is a moribund dialect of the Northern Andamanese language, and the last surviving variety of the Great Andamanese language family. Jeru was spoken in the interior and south coast of North Andaman and on Sound Island. A koiné of the Northern Andamanese dialects, based principally on Akajeru, was once spoken on Strait Island; the last semi-fluent speaker of this, Nao Jr., died in 2009.
Akajeru, Akachari, Akakhora and Akabo were dialects of a singular language, termed Northern Andamanese, with lexical correspondency between Akajeru and Akachari at 93%.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Aka-Jeru” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.