[3] Jeru was spoken in the interior and south coast of North Andaman and on Sound Island.

A koiné of the Northern Andamanese dialects, based principally on Akajeru, was once spoken on Strait Island; the last semi-fluent speaker of this, Nao Jr., died in 2009.

By 1994, the 38 remaining Great Andamanese who could trace their ancestry and culture back to the original tribes belonged to only three of them (Jeru, Bo, and Cari).

[6] The resulting mixture produced a koiné of the dialects of Northern Andamanese, based principally on Jeru.

[9][10] The following is a sample text in Present Great Andamanese, in Devanagari, the Latin script, and IPA.