Akar-Bale language

Bale
Akar-Bale
Native toIndia
RegionAndaman Islands; Ritchie’s Archipelago, Havelock Island, Neill Island.
EthnicityBale
Extinctbetween 1931 and 1951[1]
Great Andamanese
  • Southern †
    • Bale
Language codes
ISO 639-3acl
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Glottologakar1243

The Bale language, Akar-Bale (also Balwa), is an extinct Southern[2] Great Andamanese language once spoken in the Andaman Islands in Ritchie's Archipelago, Havelock Island, and Neill Island.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference vanDriem2001 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Manoharan, S. (1983). "Subgrouping Andamanese group of languages." International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics XII(1): 82-95.