Onge (Öñge)

Onge is a member of the Ongan language family spoken on Little Andaman Island, a part of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, a Union territory of India. In 2006 there were 94 speakers of Onge. The language is also known as Önge, Ong, Ongee, Eng, Ung or Öñge.

Until the mid-19th century, Onge was spoken throught Little Andaman Island, and on other nearby islands. Since then, the number of speakers has declined, and they are now all found in a small settlement in the northeast of Little Andaman.

There are ways to write Onge with the Latin and Devanagari alphabets.

Latin alphabet for Onge

Devanagari alphabet for Onge

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Details provided by Biswajit Mandal (biswajitmandal[dot]bm90[at]gmail[dot]com)

Links

Information about Onge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Önge_language
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/oon
https://www.alsintl.com/blog/onge-endangered-language/

Ongan languages

Jarawa,Onge

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Languages written with theDevanāgarī alphabet

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