Book contents
- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Africa
- Part III Tropical Asia
- 7 Hunter-Gatherers in South and Southeast Asia: The Mlabri
- 8 Foraging and the History of Languages in the Malay Peninsula
- 9 Linguistic Clues to Andamanese Prehistory: Understanding the North-South Divide
- 10 Historical Linguistics and Philippine Hunter-Gatherers
- 11 Hunter-Gatherers of Borneo and Their Languages
- Part IV New Guinea and Australia
- Part V Northeastern Eurasia
- Part VI North America
- Part VII South America
- Appendix A Preliminary Worldwide Survey of Forager Languages
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
9 - Linguistic Clues to Andamanese Prehistory: Understanding the North-South Divide
from Part III - Tropical Asia
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 February 2020
Book contents
- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Part I Introduction
- Part II Africa
- Part III Tropical Asia
- 7 Hunter-Gatherers in South and Southeast Asia: The Mlabri
- 8 Foraging and the History of Languages in the Malay Peninsula
- 9 Linguistic Clues to Andamanese Prehistory: Understanding the North-South Divide
- 10 Historical Linguistics and Philippine Hunter-Gatherers
- 11 Hunter-Gatherers of Borneo and Their Languages
- Part IV New Guinea and Australia
- Part V Northeastern Eurasia
- Part VI North America
- Part VII South America
- Appendix A Preliminary Worldwide Survey of Forager Languages
- Language Index
- Subject Index
- References
Summary
They were once home to a range of hunter-gatherer societies, who are best known from the descriptions of Man (1883) and Radcliffe-Brown (1914, 1922). These writers, along with the Andamanese themselves, split the population of the Andamans into two primary language/culture groups, the ‘Great Andaman Group’ and the ‘Little Andaman Group’ (Radcliffe-Brown 1922: 11).
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Language of Hunter-Gatherers , pp. 198 - 230Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
References
Abbi, Anvita. (2006). Endangered languages of the Andaman Islands. Munich: Lincom Europa.Google Scholar
Abbi, Anvita. (2008). Is Great Andamanese genealogically and typologically distinct from Onge and Jarawa? Language Sciences (22 April 2008).CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bellwood, Peter. (1985). Prehistory of the Indo-Malaysian Archipelago. Sydney: Academic Press.Google Scholar
Benjamin, Geoffrey. (1976a). Austroasiatic subgroupings and prehistory in the Malay Peninsula. In Jenner, P. N. et al. (eds.), Austroasiatic Studies, Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications No. 13. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 37–128.Google Scholar
Blevins, Juliette. (2007). A long lost sister of Proto-Austronesian? Proto-Ongan, mother of Jarawa and Onge of the Andaman Islands. Oceanic Linguistics 46: 154–198.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Blust, Robert. (1985). The Austronesian homeland: A linguistic perspective. Asian Perspectives 20: 46–67.Google Scholar
Blust, Robert. (1994). The Austronesian settlement of mainland Southeast Asia. In Adams, Karen L. and Hudak, Thomas John (eds.), Papers from the Second Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society. Tempe, AZ: Program for Southeast Asian Studies, Arizona State University, 25–83.Google Scholar
Cooper, Zarine. (2002). Archaeology and history: Early settlements in the Andaman Islands. Oxford: Oxford University Press.Google Scholar
Diffloth, Gérard. (1968). Proto-Semai phonology. Federation Museums Journal (new series), 13: 65–74.Google Scholar
Diffloth, Gérard. (1979). Aslian languages and Southeast Asian prehistory. Federation Museums Journal 24: 3–16.Google Scholar
Diffloth, Gérard. (2005). The contribution of linguistic palaeontology and Austroasiatic. In Sagart, Laurent, Blench, Roger, and Sanchez-Mazas, Alicia (eds.), The peopling of East Asia: Putting together archaeology, linguistics and genetics. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 77–80.Google Scholar
Kroeber, A. L. (1925). Handbook of the Indians of California. Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 78. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.Google Scholar
Man, E. H. (1883). On the aboriginal inhabitants of the Andaman Islands. Journal of the Anthropological Institute 12: 69–116, 327–434.Google Scholar
Man, E. H. (1889). A dictionary of the Central Nicobarese language. Bombay: British India Press.Google Scholar
Man, E. H. (1923). Dictionary of the South Andaman language. Bombay: British India Press.Google Scholar
Portman, M. V. (1887). Manual of the Andamanese languages. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing. [Reprinted in 1992 by Manas Publications, Delhi.]Google Scholar
Portman, M. V. (1898). Notes on the languages of the South Andaman group of tribes. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing.Google Scholar
Radcliffe-Brown, A. R. (1914). Notes on the languages of the Andaman Islands. Anthropos 9: 36–52.Google Scholar
Radcliffe-Brown, A. R. (1922). The Andaman Islanders: A study in social anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Shorto, Harry. (2006). A Mon-Khmer comparative dictionary. Sidwell, Paul (ed.). Pacific Linguistics 579. Canberra: Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, the Australian National University.Google Scholar
Sreenathan, M. (2001). The Jarawas: Language and culture. Anthropological Survey of India. Calcutta: Government of India.Google Scholar
Temple, Richard C. (1903). The Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Report on the Census. Census of India, 1901. Volume III. Calcutta: Office of the Superintendent of Government Printing, India.Google Scholar
Usher, Timothy. (2006). Great Andamanese reconstruction underway: A condensed handout with tentative remarks on Papuan and Australian vis-avis external language families. Mother Tongue: Journal of the Association for the Study of Language Prehistory XI: 295–298.Google Scholar
Whitehead, Rev. G. (1925). Dictionary of the Car-Nicobarese language. Rangoon: American Baptist Mission Press.Google Scholar
Zide, Norman, and Pandya, Vishvajit. (1989). A bibliographical introduction to Andamanese linguistics. Journal of the American Oriental Society 109: 639–651.Google Scholar