Great Andaman
The Great Andamans are an ethnic group of the Andamans and represent a subgroup of the Andaman people. They originally consisted of ten indigenous peoples, who numbered between 200 and 700 people and all had their own language, including the Bea, Bo, Jeru, Khora and Pucikwar .
At the beginning of the colonization by the British East India Company, the people of the Great Andaman counted more than 5,000 members. In addition to introduced diseases, hundreds lost their lives in clashes with British settlers. The relocation to an Andaman home initiated by the British did not survive long for many of the locals. Of the 150 children born there, none were older than two years.
In 1970 the Great Andamanians were resettled by the Indian authorities on the 2 km² Indian Strait Island, where they are dependent on the government. In 2010 there were still 52 Great Andamans alive.
The Bo sub-tribe is believed to have lived in the Andaman Islands for 65,000 years. He was the last people to come into contact with the British around 1901 and at that time still comprised 48 people. At the end of January 2010, Boa Senior , the last survivor who, according to the linguist Anvita Abbi, could still speak the Bo language, died at the age of 85.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Great Andamans threatened with extinction after tsunami flood disaster: India must quickly resettle rescued indigenous people ( memento of the original from October 24, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Extinct: death of last survivor writes the end for Andamanese people
