Andaman Creole Hindi

Andaman Creole Hindi
	Andaman Hindi
Native to	India
Region	Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Native speakers	10,000 (1994)[1]
Language family	Indo-European Indo-Iranian Western Hindi Hindustani Andaman Creole Hindi; ; ; ;
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 Tamil.^[1]

References

1 2 Andaman Creole Hindi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Andaman Creole Hindi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.

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[e18-1] 1 2 Andaman Creole Hindi at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)

[Glottolog-2] Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Andaman Creole Hindi". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.