[3] Jarawa is a language used mainly by hunter-gatherer communities who live along the western coast of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands.
The Jarawas managed to survive as a tribal entity despite suffering massive population loss from outside infectious diseases to which they had no immunity.
Their primary threat is a highway, Andaman Trunk Road, running through their territory and reserve of 1,028 square kilometers of dense evergreen forests.
[5] The ancestors of the Jarawa are thought to have been part of the first successful human migrations out of Africa.
Onge, Jarawa, and presumably Sentinelese all branched off Little Andamanese, thus sharing similar characteristics in culture and language.
[8] The Jarawa language uses close (high), mid, and open to distinguish between the height of the vowels.
Two labialised consonants also exist, such as the pharyngeal fricative and voiceless aspirated velar plosive.
[9] In terms of affixation, Jarawa has simple morphology as it takes prefixes and suffixes.
[2] In Jarawa, a morpheme can be a free root which exists independently such as in the case of /napo/ meaning 'fish'.
In observed designs, wavy lines would represent the sea and therefore only drawings or pictures would be drawn to communicate.
[4] CIIL, Mysore has introduced revised Devanagari and Latin scripts for the Jarawa language.