| Jarawa | ||||
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| Aong | ||||
| Spoken in | India | |||
| Region | Andaman Islands | |||
| Ethnicity | Jarawa people|Jarawa people (Andaman Islands)|Jarawa | |||
| Native speakers | 266 (2001–2002)[1] | |||
| Language family |
Ongan
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| Language codes | ||||
| ISO 639-3 | anq | |||
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Järawa or Jarwa is an Ongan language spoken by the Jarawa people of the interior and south central Rutland Island, central interior and south interior South Andaman Island, and the west coast of Middle Andaman Island.
Järawa means 'foreigners' in Aka-Bea, their traditional enemies. Like many peoples, they call themselves simply aong "people".
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Jarawa has six vowels and sixteen consonants, along with possible additional retroflexes, aspirates, and/or another vowel phoneme.[2]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Close-mid | e | o | |
| Mid | ə | ||
| Open | a |
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | |||
| Plosive | p b | t d | c ɟ | k ɡ | |
| Fricative | h (hʷ) | ||||
| Trill | r | ||||
| Approximant | l | j | w |
Word-initial contrast between /p/ and /b/ is disappearing, with /p/ becoming /b/ (note that Onge doesn't have a /p/ at all).[3]
Jarawa words are at least monosyllabic, and content words are at least bimoraic.[3] Maximal syllables are CVC.[3]
/c/ voices intervocalically in derived environments, /ə/ syncopates when followed by another vowel across a morpheme boundary, /ə/ becomes [o] when the next syllable has a round vowel, and whole syllables may be deleted in fast speech.[3]
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