Aka-Bea language

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

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Aka-Bea language canonical 2

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Great Andamanese language
extinct language
language
associatedWith Aka-Bea traditional culture
Andamanese indigenous peoples NERFINISHED
country India
documentedBy Edward Horace Man NERFINISHED
Maurice Vidal Portman NERFINISHED
documentedIn 19th century
early 20th century
endonym Aka-Bea-da NERFINISHED
ethnicity Aka-Bea NERFINISHED
extinctionCause colonial impact
language shift to other languages
population decline of Great Andamanese
geographicRegion Indian Ocean NERFINISHED
South Asia NERFINISHED
hasAlternativeName Aka-Bea-da language NERFINISHED
Bea language NERFINISHED
hasDomain forest ecology vocabulary
hunter-gatherer terminology
maritime environment vocabulary
hasGlottocode akab1243
hasISO639-3Code abj
hasLinguisticFeature agglutinative morphology
body-part based classifier system
noun class system
prefixal morphology
hasPhonologicalFeature contrastive vowel length
simple syllable structure
small phoneme inventory
isPartOf Great Andamanese linguistic area
languageFamily Great Andamanese languages NERFINISHED
relatedTo Aka-Cari language NERFINISHED
Aka-Jeru language NERFINISHED
Aka-Kede language NERFINISHED
Aka-Kol language
spokenBy Aka-Bea people NERFINISHED
Great Andamanese people NERFINISHED
spokenIn Andaman Islands NERFINISHED
Bay of Bengal region NERFINISHED
status extinct
usedFor everyday communication
oral tradition
ritual speech
writingSystem Latin alphabet
surface form: Latin script

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Ongan languages hasPart Aka-Bea language
Aka-Kede language relatedTo Aka-Bea language