![]() The Jarawa tribe is found on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands southeast of India in the Indian Ocean.Almost the entire community of Jarawa is monolingual. Some young Jarawa boys do frequent the Andaman Grand Trunk road now and have picked up a few Hindi words such as /do/ 'give', /jana/ 'to go' etc. The name "jarawa" is given to this tribe by the Great Andamanese which means 'strangers' in one of the ten languages once spoken.But they risk being exposed to the virus by poachers, travelers and even welfare workers encroaching on. The nomadic Jarawa tribe of an estimated 400 people live relatively isolated in forests. ![]()
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