Andaman Creole Hindi
| Andaman Creole Hindi | |
|---|---|
| Native to | India |
| Region | Andaman Islands |
Native speakers | 10,000 (1994)[1] |
|
Hindustani-based creole | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 |
hca |
| Glottolog |
anda1280[2] |
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 Malayalam.[1]
References
- 1 2 Andaman Creole Hindi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin; Bank, Sebastian, eds. (2016). "Andaman Creole Hindi". Glottolog 2.7. Jena: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
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