Talk:A-Pucikwar language

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confusing[edit]

it says it is spoken some where but before it says it's extince, MAKE UP YOU MINDS!!!Australian Jezza 07:35, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

It is extinct, no doubt about that. The problem is the incorrect information given by the Ethnologue that ends up being reproduced in other sources.E.Cogoy 20:16, 17 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Are there any sources that say it is extinct? Ethnologue says there are 24 speakers still surviving, and so does the List of Indian languages by number of native speakers. --Kuaichik (talk) 03:08, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Of course there are. To mention just a few of them:

ABBI, Anvita. Endangered Languages of the Andaman Islands. Germany: Lincom GmbH 2006.

WEBER, George. Lonely Islands: The Andamanese. www.andaman.org/BOOK/text.htm.

MANOHARAN, S. 1989. A descriptive and comparative study of Andamanese language. Calcutta: Anthropological Survey of India.

ZIDE, Norman, and Vishvajit Pandya. 1989. A bibliographical introduction to Andamanese linguistics. Journal of the American Oriental Society 109:639.51.

The Ethnologue is actually the only major source to state that Pucikwar is not extinct, and it is obviously contradicted by the facts. Ko'oy (talk) 15:04, 3 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I see! Sorry for making the mistake of claiming (on this article) that it wasn't extinct. In fact, I didn't know anything about this language, but this is very interesting. Thank you! :) --Kuaichik (talk) 03:38, 4 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]