The Aka-Bo language, also known as Ba, was an extinct Great Andamanese language spoken on islands in the Andaman archipelago of India. The Bo tribe numbered around 200 people in 1858 but decreased to only 6 by 1931 due to relocations and other factors. The last fluent speaker of Aka-Bo, a woman named Boa Senior, died in 2010, meaning the cultural and linguistic identity of the tribe had disappeared.
The Aka-Bo language, also known as Ba, was an extinct Great Andamanese language spoken on islands in the Andaman archipelago of India. The Bo tribe numbered around 200 people in 1858 but decreased to only 6 by 1931 due to relocations and other factors. The last fluent speaker of Aka-Bo, a woman named Boa Senior, died in 2010, meaning the cultural and linguistic identity of the tribe had disappeared.
The Aka-Bo language, also known as Ba, was an extinct Great Andamanese language spoken on islands in the Andaman archipelago of India. The Bo tribe numbered around 200 people in 1858 but decreased to only 6 by 1931 due to relocations and other factors. The last fluent speaker of Aka-Bo, a woman named Boa Senior, died in 2010, meaning the cultural and linguistic identity of the tribe had disappeared.
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.