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Their language is unknown to outsiders, even to the Andaman tribes on neighbouring islands. Given this extreme isolation of the Sentinelese, the wider world knows next-to-nothing about how they live.

He says their team members tried to communicate in sign language with the Sentinelese, but had no success as they were largely pre-occupied with their gifts. "They were talking among themselves ...