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
India
surface form: Republic of 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 Great Andamanese languages
surface form: Aka-Bo Great Andamanese

Aka-Bo language
Bo
hasEthnolinguisticGroup Great Andamanese
surface form: Bo people of Great Andaman
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 Andaman Hindi
surface form: Andamanese Hindi

Hindi
languageStatus extinct
lastKnownSpeaker Boa Sr
surface form: Boa Sr.
locatedIn Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Indian Ocean
locatedInTimeZone Indian Standard Time
partOf Andamanese
surface form: Andamanese languages
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 alternativeName Aka-Bo
subject surface form: Bo (Great Andamanese language)
Great Andamanese languages hasMemberLanguage Aka-Bo
this entity surface form: Aka-Bois
Great Andamanese languages hasMemberLanguage Aka-Bo
this entity surface form: Aka-Bojigyab
Pucikwar relatedTo Aka-Bo
Aka-Bo language exonym Aka-Bo
Bo people endonymLanguage Aka-Bo
Aka-Kede relatedTo Aka-Bo