Aka-Bo language

Bo
Aka-Bo
Native toIndia
RegionAndaman Islands; east central coast of North Andaman island, North Reef island.
EthnicityBo people
Extinct26 January 2010, with the death of Boa Sr.[1][2]
Great Andamanese
  • Northern
    • Bo
Language codes
ISO 639-3akm
akm.html
Glottologakab1248
ELPAka-Bo

The Bo language, Aka-Bo (also known as Ba), was a Great Andamanese language. It was spoken on the west central coast of North Andaman[3] and on North Reef Island of the Andaman Islands in India. It was recorded as being mutually intelligible with Aka-Jeru, and the vocabularies are very similar.[4]

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  3. ^ Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred R. (1922). The Andaman Islanders. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  4. ^ Zamponi, Raoul; Comrie, Bernard (2021). A grammar of Akajeru: fragments of a traditional North Andamanese dialect (PDF). Grammars of world and minority languages. London: UCL Press. ISBN 978-1-80008-093-5.