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Okol dialect
natural language, dead language, extinct language
Subclass ofGreat Andamanese Taƴto
LesdiHinndi Taƴto
Linguistic typologyagglutinative language Taƴto
Ethnologue language status10 Extinct Taƴto

Ɗemngal Kol, Aka-Kol, ko ɗemngal Andaman mawngal majjungal, jeyaangal e fedde Catal. Nde haaldaa ko e taƴre fuɗnaange-rewo Andaman hakkundeejo.

Languages and dialects of the Andaman Islands at British contact

Kol en ina njeyaa e leƴƴi koɗdiiɗi e duuɗe Andaman, ina njeyaa e leƴƴi sappo walla ko ɓuri ɗum, ɗi koloñaal en Angalteer anndi e kitaale 1860. Ɗemngal maɓɓe ina ɓadtii ɗemɗe Andaman mawɗe keddiiɗe ɗee. Ɓe majjii ko ɓe leñol ceertungol e hitaande 1921.[1]

Ɗemɗe Andaman mawɗe ɗee ko ɗemɗe agglutinative, jogiiɗe mbaydi gonndi e mbaydiiji keewɗi.[2] Eɗe njogii mbaydi innde ceertundi tuugiindi e terɗe ɓanndu, ɗo kala innde e sifaa ina waawi ƴettude jokkorgal fawaade e hol terɗe ɓanndu nde jokkondiri (e dow tuugnaade e mbaadi, walla jokkondiral gollal). Nii woni, yeru, *aka- e fuɗɗoode inɗe ɗemɗe ɗee ko jokkere enɗam wonande geɗe jowitiiɗe e ɗemngal.

Ko adii fof ko, .

Kol

hoore/ɓernde ôto-

junngo/koyngal ôn-

hunduko/ɗemngal o-

torso (baagal haa koyɗe) o-

gite/yeeso/juungo/kosam er-

ɓaawo/koyngal/butt a-

keesi

Terɗe ɓanndu ina njogii ko aldaa e paltoor, ina ɗaɓɓi jokkere enɗam ngam timminde ɗe, ɗum noon neɗɗo waawaa wiyde "hoore" tan, kono tan "hoore am, walla makko, walla hoore maa, ekn".

Inɗe teskinɗe ɗee ina ɓadii nanndude e ɗemɗe Andaman mawɗe ɗee kala.

‘Ɗum’ e ‘ɗum’ ina ceerti ko k- e t-.

So en ƴeewii e lowre wootere, ɗemɗe Andaman ina njogii tan limooje ɗiɗi kardinal — gooto e ɗiɗi — e lexicon limooje mum en fof ko gooto, ɗiɗi, gooto ɓeydotoo, won heen ɓeydotoo, e fof.

  1. George van Driem (2001), Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region : Containing an Introduction to the Symbiotic Theory of Language, BRILL, ISBN 90-04-12062-9, The Aka-Kol tribe of Middle Andaman became extinct by 1921.
  2. Temple, Richard C. (1902). A Grammar of the Andamanese Languages, being Chapter IV of Part I of the Census Report on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Superintendent's Printing Press: Port Blair.