Aka-Bea language

Bea
Aka-Bea
Native toIndia
RegionAndaman Islands; South Andaman island except northeast coast, and north and east interiors; Rutland island except south coast; small islands southeast of Rutland; Labyrinth Islands.
ExtinctBy 1931[1]
Great Andamanese
  • Southern †
    • Bea
Language codes
ISO 639-3abj
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Glottologakab1249

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.

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ also Beada ~ Biada or Bogijiab ~ Bojigniji ~ Bojigyab
  3. ^ Manoharan, S. (1983). "Subgrouping Andamanese group of languages." International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics XII(1): 82-95.