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The last speaker of an ancient language in India's Andaman Islands
has died at the age of about 85." Boa Sr was the last person to speak the Bo language (or Aka-Bo), a part of the Great Andamanese language family, which is nearly extinct. For more on Andamanese languages here is Niclas Burenhult's paper
Deep Linguistic Prehistory, with particular reference to Andamanese
and Anvita Abbi's phenomenal
Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese
. Both Vanishing Voices and the BBC report have recordings of the Bo language.
posted by
Kattullus
on Feb 5, 2010 -
17 comments
The
tribal
people
of the
beautiful
Andaman
and
Nicobar
Islands
include
socially
and
genetically
important ancient '
negrito
' groups such as the
Jarawa
. Fortunately, it looks like many of their tiny communities have
survived
the earthquake and tsunami.
posted by
iffley
on Jan 3, 2005 -
13 comments
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