Andamanese people

The Andamanese are divided into several ethnic groups indigenous people of the Andaman Islands, which are linguistically, culturally and physically related.

Groups

These peoples are provided by some scientists in the larger, but controversial group of the " Negritos ". The four surviving ethnic groups are the wholesale Andamanese, the Jarawa, Onge and the completely isolated live on North Sentinel Iceland Sentinelese. India pledged to protect these people, and strangers is forbidden by a law making contact. All groups live extremely withdrawn. Were counted according to the Society for Threatened Peoples in 2006:

• 51 wholesale Andamanese,
• 322 Jarawa,
• 99 Onge and
• 100 Sentinelese.

1974 wrote the ethnologist Heinrich Harrer after visiting the islands, among other

• Have the Sentinelese, isolated on their island, to preserve their originality .... No one knows their habits and even their language.
• The Jarawa lead ... a semi-nomadic life in the forests of the west coast of Central and South Andaman.
• The Onge ... work ... ..... the men chatted in coconut plantations, the Indians penis Shrouds (and therefore a hygiene problem) and as further progress utensils plastic buckets and umbrellas.
• The Great Andamanese - ..., 4000, a century ago, are only a small group of 23 lethargic people become unable to bear children, and supplied by the Indians in a makeshift sanctuary.