Great Andamanese

The Great Andamanese languages are one of two indigenous language families of the Andaman Islands, which are located in the Bay of Bengal and are now part of India.

I started research on the Great Andamanese languages in 2021. My current research program is geared toward the reconstruction of Proto-Great Andamanese, the internal classification of the family, and prospects for a genetic relationship with other languages/language families of Eurasia. To that end, I've developed a preliminary reconstruction of the stop consonants of Proto-Great Andamanese, the results of which were presented at the ULAB conference in Manchester in April of 2023. The next step of this project will involve the development of a publically accessible Great Andamanese lexical database (currently in progress) and the full comparative reconstruction of Proto-Great Andamanese segmental phonology.