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Ongan, also called South Andamanese or Jarawa–Onge, is a small family of two languages, Önge and Jarawa, spoken in the southern Andaman Islands: The two extant languages are: *Önge or Onge; 96 speakers (Onge) in 1997, mostly monolingual *Jarawa or Järawa; estimated at 200 speakers (Jarawa) in 1997, monolingual A third language, Jangil, extinct sometime between 1895 and 1920, is reported to have been unintelligible with but to have had noticeable connections with Jarawa. ==Classification== The Andamanese languages fall into two clear families, Great Andamanese and Ongan, plus one presumed but unattested language, Sentinelese. The similarities between Great Andamanese and Ongan are mainly of a typological and morphological nature, with little demonstrated common vocabulary. Linguists, including long-range researchers such as Joseph Greenberg, have expressed doubts as to the validity of Andamanese as a family.〔Greenberg, Joseph (1971). "The Indo-Pacific Hypothesis." ''Current Trends in Linguistics Vol. 8'', ed. by Thomas A. Sebeok, 807.71. The Hague: Mouton.〕 It has since been proposed that Ongan (but not Great Andamanese) is distantly related to Austronesian (Blevins 2007). The two attested Ongan languages are relatively close, and the historical sound reconstruction mostly straightforward: * *e before a nasal coda. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ongan languages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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