1. Family: Great Andamanese
  2. Genus: Great Andamanese

Great Andamanese

WALS coordinates: 12° N, 92° 40′ E

spoken in India

Alternative Names

Ethnologue:
Ruhlen:
Routledge:
Other:
  • Great Andamanese,
  • Andamanese,
  • Andamanese (Great Andaman),
  • Andamanese, Great Andaman dialect,
  • Andamanese (Great)
ISO 639-3:

Features

ID Feature Value Area References  
1A Consonant Inventories Small Phonology
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2A Vowel Quality Inventories Large (7-14) Phonology
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3A Consonant-Vowel Ratio Average Phonology
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4A Voicing in Plosives and Fricatives In plosives alone Phonology
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5A Voicing and Gaps in Plosive Systems None missing in /p t k b d g/ Phonology
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6A Uvular Consonants None Phonology
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7A Glottalized Consonants No glottalized consonants Phonology
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8A Lateral Consonants Laterals, but no /l/, no obstruent laterals Phonology
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11A Front Rounded Vowels None Phonology
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12A Syllable Structure Moderately complex Phonology
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13A Tone No tones Phonology
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18A Absence of Common Consonants No fricatives Phonology
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19A Presence of Uncommon Consonants None Phonology
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51A Position of Case Affixes Case suffixes Nominal Categories
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57A Position of Pronominal Possessive Affixes Possessive prefixes Nominal Categories
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69A Position of Tense-Aspect Affixes Tense-aspect suffixes Verbal Categories
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81A Order of Subject, Object and Verb SOV Word Order
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82A Order of Subject and Verb SV Word Order
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83A Order of Object and Verb OV Word Order
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85A Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase Postpositions Word Order
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86A Order of Genitive and Noun Genitive-Noun Word Order
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87A Order of Adjective and Noun Noun-Adjective Word Order
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95A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adposition and Noun Phrase OV and Postpositions Word Order
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97A Relationship between the Order of Object and Verb and the Order of Adjective and Noun OV and NAdj Word Order
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