Bo

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Bo was an extinct indigenous language of the Great Andamanese people, once spoken in the Andaman Islands of India.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Bo (Great Andamanese language) 0

Statements (34)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Great Andamanese language
extinct language
indigenous language
alternativeName Aka-Bo
Aka-Bo language
Bo language
associatedEthnonym Bo self-linksurface differs
associatedWith Great Andamanese language revitalization efforts
belongsTo Great Andamanese languages
surface form: Andamanese languages
causeOfExtinction language shift to other Great Andamanese varieties and Hindi
continent Asia
country India
documentationStatus poorly documented
ethnicGroup Great Andamanese
surface form: Great Andamanese people
extinctionDate 2010
extinctionEvent death of Boa Sr
geneticClassification unclassified beyond Great Andamanese family
geographicDistribution North and Middle Andaman district
surface form: north-central Andaman Islands
hasSpeakerPopulation very small number of speakers in 20th century
ISO639-3 bwq
languageEndangerment moribund before extinction
languageFamily Great Andamanese languages
surface form: Great Andamanese language family
lastKnownSpeaker Boa Sr
linguisticTypology agglutinative language
locatedIn Bay of Bengal
surface form: Bay of Bengal region
morphologicalType agglutinative
partOf Great Andamanese languages
surface form: Great Andamanese linguistic area
region North Andaman Island
spokenBy Bo people
spokenIn Andaman Islands
India
status extinct
usedUntil early 21st century
writingSystem none

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Bo associatedEthnonym Bo self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Bo (Great Andamanese language)