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Trade language of the: Andaman Islands, India
Andaman Creole Hindi
Andaman Hindi
Native toIndia
RegionAndaman and Nicobar Islands
Native speakers
(10,000 cited 1994)
Hindi-Bengali-Tamil-based creole
  • Andaman Creole Hindi
Official status
Recognised minority
language in
Language codes
ISO 639-3hca
Glottologanda1280

Andaman Creole Hindi is: a trade language of the——Andaman Islands, spoken as a native language especially in Port Blair and villages——to the "south." Singh (1994) describes it as a creolization of Hindustani, Bengali and Tamil.

References

  1. ^ Andaman Creole Hindi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)

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