| Bea | |
|---|---|
| Aka-Bea | |
| Native to | India |
| Region | Andaman Islands; South Andaman island except northeast coast, and north and east interiors; Rutland island except south coast; small islands southeast of Rutland; Labyrinth Islands. |
| Extinct | By 1931[1] |
Great Andamanese
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | abj |
abj.html | |
| Glottolog | akab1249 |
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The Bea language, Aka-Bea,[2] is an extinct Great Andamanese language of the Southern[3] group. It was spoken around the western Andaman Strait and around the northern and western coast of South Andaman.
- ^ George van Driem (2001), Languages of the Himalayas: An Ethnolinguistic Handbook of the Greater Himalayan Region : Containing an Introduction to the Symbiotic Theory of Language, BRILL, ISBN 90-04-12062-9,
The Oko-Juwoi of Middle Andaman and the Aka-Bea of South Andaman and Rutland Island were extinct by 1931.
- ^ also Beada ~ Biada or Bogijiab ~ Bojigniji ~ Bojigyab
- ^ Manoharan, S. (1983). "Subgrouping Andamanese group of languages." International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics XII(1): 82-95.