Ongan , also called Angan , Jarawa–Onge , or ambiguously South Andamanese , is a language family which comprises two attested Andamanese languages spoken in the southern Andaman Islands .
12-659: [REDACTED] Look up Jarawa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jarawa may refer to: Jarawas (Andaman Islands) , one of the indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands Jarawa language (Andaman Islands) Jarawa (Berber tribe) , a Berber tribal confederacy that flourished in northwest Africa during the seventh century Jarawa (Nigeria) , an ethnic group in Plateau State, Nigeria Jarawa language (Nigeria) ,
24-595: A Bantoid language of Nigeria See also [ edit ] Jarawa people (disambiguation) Jarawa language (disambiguation) Jarawa-Onge languages or Ongan languages, a subfamily of languages within the Andamanese group Jarawan languages , a dialect cluster that is closely related to, or perhaps a branch of, the Bantu languages Jawara , a surname Jarwa , a village in Uttar Pradesh, India INS Jarawa ,
36-406: A Berber tribal confederacy that flourished in northwest Africa during the seventh century Jarawa (Nigeria) , an ethnic group in Plateau State, Nigeria Jarawa language (Nigeria) , a Bantoid language of Nigeria See also [ edit ] Jarawa people (disambiguation) Jarawa language (disambiguation) Jarawa-Onge languages or Ongan languages, a subfamily of languages within
48-534: A naval base in the Andaman Islands, India Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Jarawa . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jarawa&oldid=1172324537 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
60-500: Is also used for the closely related southern pair of the Great Andamanese languages . The attested Andamanese languages fall into two clear families, Great Andamanese and Ongan. The similarities between Great Andamanese and Ongan are mainly of a typological and morphological nature, with little demonstrated common vocabulary. Linguists, including long-range researchers such as Joseph Greenberg , have expressed doubts as to
72-464: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Language and nationality disambiguation pages Jarawa [REDACTED] Look up Jarawa in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Jarawa may refer to: Jarawas (Andaman Islands) , one of the indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands Jarawa language (Andaman Islands) Jarawa (Berber tribe) ,
84-471: Is that they are inalienably possessed , requiring a possessive adjective prefix to complete them, so one cannot say "head" alone, but only "my, or his, or your, etc. head". The Ongan pronouns are here represented by Önge: There is also an indefinite prefix ən-, on- "someone's". Jarawa does not have the plural series, but the singular is very close: m-, ŋ- or n-, w-, ən- . From this, Blevins reconstructs Proto-Ongan *m-, *ŋ-, *gw-, *en-. Judging from
96-460: The Andamanese group Jarawan languages , a dialect cluster that is closely related to, or perhaps a branch of, the Bantu languages Jawara , a surname Jarwa , a village in Uttar Pradesh, India INS Jarawa , a naval base in the Andaman Islands, India Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Jarawa . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
108-473: The historical sound reconstruction mostly straightforward: *ə appears to be allophonic for *e before a nasal coda. The Ongan languages are agglutinative , with an extensive prefix and suffix system. They have a noun class system based largely on body parts, in which every noun and adjective may take a prefix according to which body part it is associated with (on the basis of shape, or functional association). Another peculiarity of terms for body parts
120-498: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jarawa&oldid=1172324537 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Language and nationality disambiguation pages Jarawa-Onge languages The two known extant languages are: The label 'Southern Andamanese languages'
132-558: The possibility open that some resemblances could be the result of contact/borrowing, a position also held by Hoogervorst (2012). Robert Blust (2014) argues that Blevins' conclusions are not supported by her data, and that of her first 25 reconstructions, none are reproducible using the comparative method. Blust concludes that the grammatical comparison does not hold up, and also cites non-linguistic (such as cultural, archaeological, and biological) evidence against Blevins' hypothesis. The two attested Ongan languages are relatively close, and
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#1732848586913144-441: The validity of Andamanese as a family. It has since been proposed (by Juliette Blevins 2007) that Ongan (but not Great Andamanese) is distantly related to Austronesian in a family called Austronesian–Ongan . However, the proposal of a genealogical connection between Austronesian and Ongan has not been well-received by other linguists. George Van Driem (2011) considers Blevins' evidence as "not compelling", although he leaves
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