Aka-Bea

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Aka-Bea is an extinct Great Andamanese language once spoken by the indigenous Aka-Bea people of the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Aka-Bea canonical 4
Aka-Bea-da 1

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Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Great Andamanese language
extinct language
natural language
classifiedBy linguists as part of Great Andamanese family
country India
culturalRegion indigenous Andamanese culture
documentedBy Alexander Radcliffe Brown
Maurice Vidal Portman
documentedIn early 20th century
late 19th century
endangeredStatus extinct language
ethnicity Aka-Bea people NERFINISHED
extinctionCause colonial impact
language shift to other languages
population decline of Aka-Bea people
hasAlternativeName Aka-Bea
surface form: Aka-Bea-da

Bea
Bea-da
hasDocumentationType ethnographic descriptions
grammatical notes
wordlists
hasGlottocode akab1241
hasMorphologicalFeature agglutinative structure
extensive prefixation
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
rich system of noun class prefixes
hasTypologicalFeature head-marking
hasWordOrder flexible word order
languageCodeISO3 abj
languageFamily Great Andamanese
lexiconInfluencedBy contact with other Great Andamanese languages
locatedIn Andaman and Nicobar Islands
partOf Andamanese
surface form: Andamanese languages
region South Andaman Island
relatedTo Aka-Jeru
Aka-Kede
Aka-Kol
Pucikwar
surface form: Aka-Pucikwar
spokenBy Aka-Bea people NERFINISHED
Great Andamanese
surface form: Great Andamanese peoples
spokenIn Andaman Islands
Bay of Bengal
surface form: Bay of Bengal region
status extinct
subgroupOf Great Andamanese
surface form: Southern Great Andamanese
usedFor everyday communication among Aka-Bea people
ritual speech
traditional oral narratives
writingSystem no indigenous writing system

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Referenced by (5)

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

Pucikwar relatedTo Aka-Bea
Aka-Bea hasAlternativeName Aka-Bea
this entity surface form: Aka-Bea-da
Aka-Kede relatedTo Aka-Bea
Aka-Bale relatedTo Aka-Bea