By 1994 the population had been reduced to two women aged over 50 living with the other few surviving Great Andamanese on Strait Island.

[5][6][1] The Cari population at the time of first European contacts (in the 1790s) has been estimated at 100 individuals, out of perhaps 3500 Great Andamanese.

[1] The last speaker, a woman called Licho, died from chronic tuberculosis on 4 April 2020 in Shadipur, Port Blair.

Thus, for instance, the *aka- at the beginning of the language names is a prefix for objects related to the tongue.

Judging from the available sources, the Andamanese languages have only two cardinal numbers — one and two — and their entire numerical lexicon is one, two, one more, some more, and all.