Andaman Creole Hindi
A language of India
| Population | 20,500 (Singh 1994). |
| Region | Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Port Blair, 40 villages south of Port Blair. |
| Alternate names | Andaman Hindi |
| Dialects | A creolization of Hindustani, Bengali [ben], Malayalam [mal]. |
| Classification | Creole, Hindi based |
| Language use | Home. All ages. Use standard Hindi with outsiders. Diglossia. |
| Comments | Spoken as L1 by mixed generations of communities who consider themselves to be locals. Contains elements of Indo-Aryan and Dravidian grammar. No literature exists in the creole. Standard Hindi literature is used. |
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