Andaman Creole Hindi

HCA

vigorous

Alternate Names: Andaman Hindi

Dialects: None known. A creolization of Hindustani, Bengali ,, and Malayalam ,.

Genealogy:

Creole
Hindi based

Demographics: 10,000 (Singh 1994).

Language Use: Home. All ages. Use standard Hindi [hin] with outsiders. Diglossia.

Writing System: Unwritten

Nation of Origin: India

Other Comments: Spoken as L1 by mixed generations of communities. Contains elements of Indo-Aryan and Dravidian grammar. No literature exists in the creole. Standard Hindi literature is used.