Aka-Bo

E318983

Aka-Bo is an extinct Great Andamanese language once spoken by the Bo people of the Andaman Islands in India.

All labels observed (3)

Label Occurrences
Aka-Bo canonical 7
Aka-Bois 1
Aka-Bojigyab 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Great Andamanese language
extinct language
natural language
causeOfLanguageEndangerment language shift to dominant languages
population decline of Bo people
continent Asia
country India
Republic of India
linked to: India
dateOfLanguageDeath 2010
documentedBy Anvita Abbi
documentedIn linguistic fieldwork in Great Andamanese languages
endangeredStatus critically endangered (historical)
ethnicGroup Bo people
extinctionType linguistic extinction with survival of ethnic group remnants
hasAlternativeName Aka-Bo Great Andamanese
Aka-Bo language
Bo
hasEthnolinguisticGroup Bo people of Great Andaman
linked to: Great Andamanese
hasLinguisticFeature agglutinative morphology
noun class system based on body parts
prefixing morphology
small speaker population historically
historicalPopulationTrend sharp decline in 19th and 20th centuries
languageCodeStatus no ISO 639-3 code (distinct)
languageDeathEvent death of Boa Sr. in 2010
languageDocumentationStatus poorly documented
languageFamily Great Andamanese
languageShiftTo Andamanese Hindi
linked to: Andaman Hindi

Hindi
languageStatus extinct
lastKnownSpeaker Boa Sr.
linked to: Boa Sr
locatedIn Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Indian Ocean
locatedInTimeZone Indian Standard Time
partOf Andamanese languages
linked to: Andamanese
region Bay of Bengal
relatedTo Aka-Cari
Aka-Jeru
Aka-Kede
Aka-Kora
spokenBy Bo people
spokenIn Andaman Islands
Middle Andaman Island
North Andaman Island
subclassOf Great Andamanese languages
writingSystem no native script

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Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Bo (Great Andamanese language) alternativeName Aka-Bo
subject linked to: Bo
Great Andamanese languages hasMemberLanguage Aka-Bois
linked to: Aka-Bo
Great Andamanese languages hasMemberLanguage Aka-Bojigyab
linked to: Aka-Bo
Pucikwar relatedTo Aka-Bo
Aka-Bo language exonym Aka-Bo
Bo people endonymLanguage Aka-Bo
Aka-Kede relatedTo Aka-Bo