Jarawa

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Aka-Bea [Term?] (“foreigner”).[1]

Noun

Jarawa pl (plural only)

  1. One of the Adivasi indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands.

Proper noun

Jarawa

  1. An Ongan language spoken by the Jarawa people of Andaman Islands.

Proper noun

Jarawa

  1. The most populous of the Southern Bantoid Jarawan languages of eastern Nigeria.

References
  1. Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown (1922) The Andaman Islanders.
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