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DICTIONARY OF THE SOUTH ANDAMAN LANGUAGE.
BY EDWARD HORACE MAN, C.I.E.
PREFACE.
As the interesting Negrito race inhabiting the Andaman Islands is doomed to early extinction-save possibly the small section occupying Little Andaman,-and as their languages have been studied by but a few persons, I have been invited by my old friend the Editor of the Indian Antiquary to place at his disposal for publication in that Journal the MSS. of my Andaman Dictionary, which represent the results of my study during the thirty-two years of my connection with those Islands, of the words, together with illustrative sentences, phrases, etc., of that one of the languages, viz., the South Andaman, with which I was conversant; and to supplement the same, by means of Appendices, with as much additional matter of interest as can be culled from my notes, many of which date from before 1880. There will even then still remain, in MSS. almost ready for publication, much material of scientific value dealing with the Grammar, Syntax, Songs, etc., of these Islanders, prepared between 1876-1880 by Sir R. C. Temple, who collaborated with me in those far-off days.
The published works of writers who have sought to advance our knowledge of the Andamanese, cr of their languages, or both, are the following:
1794. Colebrooke, (R. H.) "Asiatic Researches", Vol. IV., 1807.
1863. Mouat, (Dr. F. J.) "Adventures and Researches among the Andaman Islanders." London.
1877. Man and Temple. "The Lord's Prayer in the South Andaman Language." Calcutta.
1880. Ball, (V.) "Jungle Life in India." London.
1881-2. Man, (E. H.) "Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands." R. Anthrop. Inst. Journ, London. (Re-printed in Book Form in 1885 as "The Andaman Islanders)."
1882. Ellis, (Dr. A. J.) F.R.S. "Report of Researches into the Language of the South Andaman Island," vide Transactions of the Phil. Soc., London
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1887. Portman, (M. V.) Andamanese Manual: "Record of the Andamanese." (XI Vol. MS in India
1893-8. Portman, (M. V.)
Office, London.)
1898. Portman, (M. V.) "Notes on the Languages of the South Andaman Group of Tribes." Calcutta.
1899. Portman, (M. V.) "History of our Relations with the Andamanese." Calcutta. 1902. Kloss, (C. B.) "In the Andamans and Nicobars." London.
1902. Temple, (Sir R. C.) "A Grammar of the Andamanese and Nicobarese Languages." Port Blair. (A reprint from the Census Report, 1901.)
"Report on the Census of the Andaman and Nicobar
1903. Temple, (Sir R. C.) Islands, 1901." Calcutta.
1907. Temple, (Sir R. C.) ages of Savages Applied to the Antiquary; Bombay.)
1908. Temple, (Sir R. C.)
"Andamans." (Ency. of Religion and Ethics.)
1909. Temple, (Sir R. C.) "Andaman and Nicobar Islands." (Imperial Gazetteer of India, Provincial Series; Calcutta.)
"A Plan for the Uniform Scientific Record of the LanguLanguages of the Andamanese and Nicobarese." (Indian
