Akar-Bale

Also known as Akar-Bale language

The Bale language, Akar-Bale (also Balwa or Balawa), is an extinct Southern Great Andamanese language once spoken in the Andaman Islands in Ritchie's Archipelago, Havelock Island, and Neill Island.

Key facts

Language.name: Bale
Language.states: India
Language.region: Andaman Islands; Ritchie’s Archipelago, Havelock Island, Neill Island.
Language.extinct: between 1931 and 1951
Language.familycolor: Andamanese
Language.fam1: Great Andamanese
Language.fam2: Southern †
Language.iso3: acl
Language.linglist: acl.html
Language.glotto: akar1243
Language.glottorefname: Akarbale
Language.ethnicity: Bale
Language.map2: Lang Status 01-EX.svg
Language.altname: Balawa
Language.map: Schematic_Map_of_Andamanese_Languages_&_Tribes.png

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: extinct language
Subclass of: Great Andamanese
Country: India

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linguistic typology: agglutinative language
indigenous to: Andaman Islands

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The Bale language, Akar-Bale (also Balwa or Balawa), is an extinct Southern Great Andamanese language once spoken in the Andaman Islands in Ritchie's Archipelago, Havelock Island, and Neill Island.

==History==

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