Aka-Kora

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Aka-Kora is an extinct Great Andamanese language once spoken by the Kora people of North Andaman Island in India.

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Aka-Kora canonical 5

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Great Andamanese language
agglutinative language
extinct language
alternativeName Aka-Kora language
Kora
associatedWith North Andaman tribal history
belongsTo Andamanese
surface form: Andamanese languages
continent Asia
country India
documentedBy linguists studying Great Andamanese languages
endangeredStatus extinct
ethnicGroup Kora people NERFINISHED
extinctionCause language shift to other Great Andamanese varieties and to Hindi
population decline of Kora people
extinctionDate 20th century
geographicDistribution northern part of Great Andaman archipelago
grammaticalFeature complex prefix systems typical of Great Andamanese
ISO639-3 ack
languageCodeStandard ISO 639-3: ack
languageFamily Great Andamanese
languageFamilyLevel independent small family within Great Andamanese
languageOf Kora people NERFINISHED
lexicalSimilarityWith other Great Andamanese languages
locatedIn Bay of Bengal
surface form: Bay of Bengal region
morphologyType polysynthetic
partOf Great Andamanese languages
surface form: Great Andamanese language group
region North Andaman Island
spokenIn Andaman and Nicobar Islands
India
North Andaman Island
status extinct
typology head-marking language
usedFor daily communication among Kora people
oral tradition
writingSystem no indigenous writing system

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