About the Book: Voices from the Lost Horizon: Stories and Songs of the Great
Andamanese
The Andaman islands—great Andaman, little Andaman, and North sentinel islands
have been home for millennium to four tribes: the great andamanese, Onge,
jarawa, and sentinelese. Their languages are known by the same name as that of
the tribes. 'Great andamanese is a generic Term representing ten languages among
a family of languages that were once spoken by ten different tribes living in
the North, South, and middle of the great Andaman islands. These languages were
mutually intelligible like a link in a chain. However, today, great andamanese
is a moribund language