Akajeru

As the numbers of Great Andamanese progressively declined over the succeeding decades, the various Great Andamanese tribes either disappeared altogether or became amalgamated through intermarriage. By 1994, the 38 remaining Great Andamanese who could trace their ancestry and culture back to the original tribes belonged to only three of them (Jeru, Bo, and Cari). The resulting mixture produced a koiné of the dialects of Northern Andamanese, based principally on Jeru. The last fluent speaker, Nao, died in 2009. == Phonology ==

Consonants Aka-Jeru has the following consonants: Vowels Aka-Jeru has the following vowels: == Grammar ==

See Great Andamanese languages for more general grammatical description. Proclitics based on words for parts of the body pervade the grammatical system of the language, a pattern not attested from any other known language. ==Sample text==

The following is a sample text in Present Great Andamanese, in Devanagari, the Latin script, and IPA. {{fs interlinear|indent=2 ==References==