Archive for February 2010

Ancient language Bo dies with last speaker

Feb 9th, 2010 | By Leonard Fernandes | Category: Languages

Source: mirror.co.uk
The last member of a 65,000-year-old tribe has passed away – and with her the ancient Bo language.
Boa Sr was the only surviving descendant of the Bo people, who inhabited the remote Andaman Islands off the east coast of India.
She died last week aged 83 after living through British rule, Second World War Japanese [...]