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Aka Language

Aka is a small tribe found in the West kameng District of Arunachal Pradesh, India. It has many clans and the clans have sub-clans.

The language spoken by them is Aka. It does not have a script. Oral communication is the medium. And sadly, the language is slowly dying away because of two main reasons:

(1) Upcoming generation, the youth do not speak their own mother tongue rather willfully resort to communicate in either Hindi or English.

(2) Many parents think their children should learn and speak English or Hindi, as they are believed to be language of educated people.

It is at this juncture that a Missionary of Society of Jesus Rev. Fr. Vijay A. D'Souza stepped in to study to the language and try his possibility to save the language. And now because of his selfless effort and dedication the tribe has script of its own.