Talk:A-Pucikwar language

confusing

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)