Is Great Andamanese genealogically and typologically distinct from Onge and Jarawa?

Language Sciences

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 791-812

  Abbi, Anvita ^a  

^a JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Andamanese; Body parts; Clitics; Cognacy; Endangered languages; Genitives; Haplotypes; Proto Andamanese; Typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 68949088478     PISSN: 03880001     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.langsci.2008.02.002     Document Type: Article

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