安达曼语系
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| 地理分佈： | 南亚，安达曼群岛 |
| 谱系学分类： | Andamanese |
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? Sentinel (unattested)
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安达曼语系是由印度洋上安达曼群岛居民的语言所构成的语系，共分两大语区。多数语言被归入大安达曼语族和南部的语区，而南部 Ongan, Sentinelese 等语言，所知不多，暂难分类。
自1860年代起，英国殖民地政府，把安达曼群岛作为羁留囚犯的地方後，印度裔和克倫族人口上升，安达曼群岛的原居民不断减少，以致使用安达曼语系的人数下降。现在大部分安达曼语已经消亡，餘下的也只有数十至数百名使用者。
桑提内尔语可被视为希望，因为尽管只有数百使用者，当地居民顽强地抵抗着外来文化的侵略。
分类 [编辑]
安达曼语系
- 大安达曼语族
- 南安达曼语族
參考文獻 [编辑]
- Abbi, Anvita. 2006. Endangered Languages of the Andaman Islands. LINCOM Studies in Asian Linguistics, 64. München: Lincom Europa. ISBN 3895868663
- Blevins, Juliette. A Long Lost Sister of Proto-Austronesian? Proto-Ongan, Mother of Jarawa and Onge of the Andaman Islands. Oceanic Linguistics. 2007, 46 (1): 154–198.
- Burenhult, Niclas. 1996. Deep linguistic prehistory with particular reference to Andamanese. Working Papers 45, 5-24. Lund University: Department of Linguistics.
- Man, E.H. 1883. On the Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands. The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 12.
- Manoharan, S. 1997. “Pronominal Prefixes and Formative Affixes in Andamanese Language.” Anvita Abbi (ed.). The Languages of Tribal and Indigenous Peoples of India. The Ethnic Space. Delhi: Motilal Benarsidass.
- Portman, M.V. 1887. A Manual of the Andamanese Languages. London: W.H. Allen & Co.
- Temple, Richard C. A Grammar of the Andamanese Languages, being Chapter IV of Part I of the Census Report on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Superintendent's Printing Press: Port Blair 1902.
- Zide, Norman Herbert & V. Pandya. 1989. "A Bibliographical Introduction to Andamanese Linguistics." Journal of the American Oriental Society 109: 639-51.
外部連結 [编辑]
- Ethnologue entry for Andamanese languages
- South Asia Bibliography - Andamanese
- Andaman Association
- Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese Anvita Abbi, Jawaharlal Nehru University
- The Andamanese Language Family (I) & (II)
- Burenhult's Paper on Andamanese
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