Jarawa

English

Etymology 1

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

Noun

Jarawa (plural Jarawas or Jarawa)

  1. A member of an Adivasi indigenous people of the Andaman Islands.

Proper noun

Jarawa

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

Etymology 2

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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