The last member of a unique tribe has died on India's Andaman Islands. Boa Sr, who died last week aged around 85, was the last speaker of Bo, one of the ten Great Andamanese languages. The Bo are ...

“Hold on to your language, don’t let it slip away.” These prophetic words of Boa Sr, one of the last speakers of the Great Andamanese languages, kept ringing in my mind for a very long time. “Once I ...

(1) PROF. RADCLIFFE-BROWN'S study of the Andaman Islanders, which was first published in 1922, is reprinted without change, save for the addition of a few pages on the Andaman languages. The author ...

When Boro died on Strait Island last November, Boa lost a friend. The world lost a language. Last week, Boa also died. Another language died with her. The death of these last surviving speakers of two ...

The last speaker of an ancient tribal language died in the Andaman Islands, breaking a 65,000-year link to one of the world’s oldest cultures. Boa Sr, who lived through the 2004 tsunami, the Japanese ...