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Aka-Bo language

The Bo language, Aka-Bo (also known as Ba), is an extinct


Great Andamanese language. It was spoken on the west
central coast of North Andaman and on North Reef Island of the
Andaman Islands in India.

History

The original size of the Bo tribe, by 1858, has been estimated at


200 individuals. The census of 1901 recorded only 48
individuals. Their number was up to 62 in 1911, but then
decreased to 16 in 1921 and only 6 in 1931. In 1949, any
remaining Bo were relocated, with all other surviving Great
Andamanese, to a reservation on Bluff island. In 1969 they
were moved again to a reservation on Strait Island.
However, tribal identities became largely symbolic in the wake
of the relocations. By 2006 the cultural and linguistic identity of
the tribe had all but disappeared, due to intermarriage and other
factors. The last speaker of the Bo language, a woman named
Boa Senior, died at age 85 in late January, 2010.

Thracian language

The Thracian language was the Indo-European language


spoken in ancient times in Southeastern Europe by the
Thracians, the northern neighbors of the Ancient Macedonians.
The Thracian language exhibits satemization: it either belonged
to the Satem group of Indo-European languages or it was
strongly influenced by Satem languages. The language, of
which little is known from written sources, was extinct by the
Early Middle Ages.

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