1. Jarawa Language
38 speakers
Jarawa shares the similar destiny with Onge language, since it also belongs to the family of Ongan group of languages, spoken by Jarawa people, who live on the Rutland and Andaman Islands. They are mostly hunters, and almost everywhere described as not very friendly towards the members of other tribes, so, quite similarly like Onge, they also live in quite a closed circle without letting anyone interfere. In this way, the speakers of the language are reduced to a minimal number of 38, which is the main reason why Jarawa is on the first place of our list of the top 15 critically endangered languages in India.
