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A major restructuring of our web-site is under way

Over the last 10 years, the mass of data on our Website has grown to such an extent that our original simple file structure has become a tangled thicket that turns uploading new or updating existing material more and more often into a real pain.

To deal with the problem, we are now restructuring the entire site. This is rather timeconsuming work and we will be lucky if we can upload the newly reorganized site in a few months. However long it takes, and however much new material is piling up here that cries out to be dealt with, until the newly streamlined site is up and (hopefully) running, apart from perhaps some minor updates and corrections, new material will not be added to the site during the time of reconstruction.

Of course, the site as it is now remains accessible until the planned new upload.

If you tend to visit the site through links remembered by your computer or browser, be warned. When the new site is up and running, many files will not be in the same place as before and you might get lots of "not found" or other silly error messages. The best way to deal with this at the time will be at first to enter only through the front page (http://www.andaman.org/) and then to follow the new tables of contents that will be provided.

Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your patience!

George Weber

6 September 2008

 

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NEW!

The Palau Pygmies - real or not?

A controversy is brewing about whether the Palau Pygmies are real or not.
See the new notes at the end of this chapter with links to the original sources

Added 14 September 2008 to the end of the existing Palau chapter

 

Chapter 53: The Palau Pygmies

Newly discovered: an extinct Negrito-like (?) dwarf (?) people in the remote Pacific Palau islands

Uploaded 15 April 2008

Roger Blench: The Shompen Language

Reprint in our Chapter on the Shompen of the Nicobar Islands:
Roger Blench, 2007. "The Language of the Shompen: a Language Isolate in the Nicobar islands", Mother Tongue, 12:179-202 (Harvard University, USA)

Uploaded 19 July 2008

Anvita Abbi et al. Where Have All the Speakers Gone?

A sociolinguistic study of the Great Andamanese and their languages
(reprint from Indian Linguistics 2007)


 

 

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