What does "sentinelese" mean?

A member of an indigenous people of the Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal. They inhabit North Sentinel Island.

How do you pronounce "sentinelese"?

Pronounced //ˌsɛntɪnəˈliːz//.

//ˌsɛntɪnəˈliːz// name, noun

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Noun

1
A member of an indigenous people of the Andaman Islands, in the Bay of Bengal. They inhabit North Sentinel Island. in-plural
"Mykhailo Viktorovych Polyakov, 24, made the illegal voyage to North Sentinel Island, home to the enigmatic Sentinelese tribe, on March 29, Indian police told CNN."

Proper Noun

1
The language of these people, unknown but presumed to belong to one of the Andamanese language families.

"It is said that the Sentinelese are extremely fierce people."

From Sentinel + -ese.

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.