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An example of extinction
One of the world's most endangered
languages has dissappeared forever after the last remaining member of a unique
tribe that inhabited the Andaman Islands for as long as 65,000 years died of
old age. The
last speaker of the Bo language, a woman named Boa Sr., died at age 85 in late
January, 2010. It is one of the ten Great Andamanese tribes that are
considered indigenous inhabitants of the islands, which lie 750 miles off the
east coast of India.
She was also the last known speaker of
the Bo language,...
