Bo people

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The Bo people were an indigenous group of the Great Andaman Islands, known for their distinct culture and language, now considered extinct.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Bo people canonical 7

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Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Andamanese people
extinct ethnic group
indigenous people
affectedBy establishment of penal colony in Andaman Islands
archipelago Andaman Islands
associatedWith Aka-Bo language
Great Andamanese
surface form: Great Andamanese tribes
causeOfExtinction colonial contact
disease
loss of land
colonialContactWith British Empire
continent Asia
country India
culturalClassification hunter-gatherer society
cultureArea Great Andaman
demographicStatus culturally extinct
linguistically extinct
endonymLanguage Aka-Bo
ethnicGroupOf Andaman Islands
surface form: Great Andaman Islands
ethnonym Bo
historicalEra pre-colonial Andaman Islands
languageFamily Andamanese
surface form: Andamanese languages

Great Andamanese languages
lastKnownSpeakerOfLanguageDied 21st century
locatedIn Andaman Islands
Bay of Bengal
India
partOf Great Andamanese
surface form: Great Andamanese peoples
populationTrend declining in 19th and 20th centuries
recognizedAs Scheduled Tribes
surface form: Scheduled Tribe of India
regionType island population
relatedGroup Cari people
Jangil people
Jeru people
Kora people
Pucikwar people NERFINISHED
religionType animism
spokeLanguage Aka-Bo language
status extinct
subgroupOf Great Andamanese
traditionalHabitat coastal areas
tropical rainforest
traditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering
hunting
traditionalTechnology bow and arrow
canoes

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Referenced by (7)

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

Bo spokenBy Bo people
subject surface form: Bo (Great Andamanese language)
Aka-Bo ethnicGroup Bo people
Aka-Bo spokenBy Bo people
Aka-Bo language spokenBy Bo people
Bo language ethnicGroup Bo people
Bo language associatedPeople Bo people