A Grammar of Akabea

A Grammar of Akabea
Author :
Publisher :
Total Pages : 457
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780198855798
ISBN-13 : 0198855796
Rating : 4/5 (796 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Grammar of Akabea by : Raoul Zamponi

Download or read book A Grammar of Akabea written by Raoul Zamponi and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Akabea is one of the indigenous languages of the Andaman Islands, and is also the name of the people who spoke it. The Akabea lived as hunter-gatherers for thousands of years until the second half of the nineteenth century, when the British developed a penal colony on the Andaman Islands. This led to the introduction of diseases to which the indigenous inhabitants had no natural immunity and caused a demographic collapse; the last member of the Akabea tribe died some time between the 1921 and 1931 censures. There are two indigenous language families of the Andaman Islands, Great Andamanese (to which Akabea belongs) and Ongan. The former is now represented by only a handful of people who remember North Andamanese, the variety geographically most removed from Akabea and from the centre of British settlement, while the latter, whose speaker resisted contact with outsiders, still survives in small but vital speech communities. Akabea was, however, documented quite extensively by two British government employees in the second half of the nineteenth century and is in fact the best documented of the traditional Great Andamanese language. This documentation has gone largely unused until now, and the present grammar is the first attempt to make use of this material to present to a broader public the structure of the language, which includes features that are rare among the languages of the world. The Andaman Islands lie on one of the early migration routes of anatomically modern humans into South-East Asia and beyond, and their indigenous inhabitants have attracted the attention of anthropologists, archaeologists, and more recently geneticists. We hope that this grammar of Akabea will integrate linguistics into this multi-disciplinary investigation. Book jacket.


A Grammar of Akabea Related Books

A Grammar of Akabea
Language: en
Pages: 464
Authors: Raoul Zamponi
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-07-15 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume is the first extensive and reliable grammatical description of any traditional language of the Great Andamanese family. Akabea died out in the 1920s
A Grammar of Akabea
Language: en
Pages: 457
Authors: Raoul Zamponi
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020 - Publisher:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Akabea is one of the indigenous languages of the Andaman Islands, and is also the name of the people who spoke it. The Akabea lived as hunter-gatherers for thou
A Grammar of Akajeru
Language: en
Pages: 184
Authors: Raoul Zamponi
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-11 - Publisher: UCL Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A Grammar of Akajeru describes aspects of the grammatical system and lexicon of Akajeru, a traditional dialect of the North Andamanese language, as it was repor
Morphological Perspectives
Language: en
Pages: 474
Authors: Matthew Baerman
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-04-17 - Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Morphological Perspectives takes words as the starting point for any questions about linguistic structure: their form, their internal structure, their paradigma
A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language
Language: en
Pages: 331
Authors: Anvita Abbi
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-18 - Publisher: BRILL

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language is a pioneering piece of work by Anvita Abbi which introduces readers to a unique world of cognition of the people wh