Tags: Ethnic Group.
Great Andamanese (Hindi: अण्डमानी Aṇḍamānī in Hindi) is a collective term used to refer to related indigenous peoples who lived throughout most of the Great Andaman archipelago the main group of islands in the Andaman Islands; and also to their present-day descendants living since 1970 on Strait Island.The Great Andamanese were originally divided into ten major tribes with distinct but closely related languages comprising one of the two identified families of indigenous Andamanese languages the Great Andamanese family.The Great Andamanese were clearly related to the other four major indigenous groups in the Andaman islands but were well separated from them by culture and geography.
