Definitions
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- proper noun An
indigenous Great Andamanesepeople of the Andaman Islands, one of the ten or so distinct tribes which existed when British colonisation began in the 1860s and which disintegrated because of that colonisation. - proper noun The
A-Pucikwar language spoken by these people.
Etymologies
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From A-Pucikwar Pucikwar.
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I thought at first that the "10 variants" were those listed in the Ethnologue family tree for Great Andamanese, but all except A-Pucikwar are said to be extinct.
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