Great Andamanese is a collective term used to refer to related groups or tribes of indigenous peoples who lived throughout most of the Great Andaman archipelago, the main and closely-situated group of islands in the Andaman Islands. Their collective identity is put forward mainly on the basis of linguistic analysis; the languages spoken by the different groups were (from what is known) clearly related, and formed one of the two identified families of indigenous Andamanese languages (the Great Andamanese family). http://www. ... The term indigenous people has no universal, standard or fixed definition, but can be used about any ethnic group who inhabit the geographic region with which they have the earliest historical connection. ... Great Andaman is the main archipelago of the Andaman Islands of India. ... The Mergui Archipelago The Archipelago Sea, situated between the Gulf of Bothnia and the Gulf of Finland, the largest archipelago in the world by the number of islands. ... Andaman Islands The Andaman Islands are a group of islands in the Bay of Bengal, and are part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands Union Territory of India. ... Linguistics is the scientific study of language, which can be theoretical or applied. ... A language family is a group of languages related by descent from a common proto-language. ... Ethnolinguistic map of the precolonial Andaman Islands (drawn 1902) The Andamanese languages form a language family spoken in the Andaman Islands, a India. ...

By the time the British established a permanent settlement and penal colony in the Andaman Islands (the 1860s), there were 10 distinct linguistic / territorial groups of Great Andamanese, who had persisted on these islands for thousands of years largely untouched by external influences. However, as migration of settlers to the islands increased over the succeeding decades, the numbers and societal groups of the Great Andamanese peoples progressively deteriorated. Today, there are only a few dozen individuals left of Great Andamanese descent, living on the small Strait Island, and the cultural and linguistic identities of the individual groups have been lost. A penis colony is a colony used to detain prisoners and generally use them for penal labor in an economically underdeveloped part of the states (usually colonial) territories, and on a far larger scale than a prison farm. ... // The First Transcontinental Railroad in the USA was built in the six year period between 1863 and 1869. ...

The Great Andamanese peoples are collectively distinguished from other indigenous Andamanese groups, by culture, geography and language. The peoples of the southern part of Great Andaman - areas of South Andaman Island and Rutland Island - as well as Little Andaman Island and North Sentinel Island speak languages which are classified in a separate family of the Andamanese languages, South Andamanese/Onge-Jarawa. South Andaman Island is the southernmost island of Great Andaman and is home to the majority of the Andaman Islands population. ... Rutland Island is an island located across the Macpherson Strait from Port Blair on South Andaman Island in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. ... Little Andaman is the fourth largest of the Andaman Islands with an area of 739 km², lying at the southern end of the archipelago. ... Outline map of the Andaman Islands, with the location of North Sentinel Island highlighted (in red). ...

The 10 distinct Great Andamanese groups were generally distributed in territories which "partitioned off" segments ranging along the narrow archipelago of Great Andaman, which runs essentially in a north-south line for approximately 350 km, but is only some 50 km at its widest extent. This peculiar geography meant that groups typically only had two sets of neighbouring tribes. Roughly arranged from north to south, the different Great Andamanese peoples were: “km” redirects here. ...

• Aka-Cari
• Aka-Kora
• Aka-Bo
• Aka-Jeru
• Aka-Kede
• Aka-Kol
• Oko-Juwoi
• A-Pucikwar
• Akar-Bale
• Aka-Bea