It's very sad that a tribe is extinct, but this makes me ill:
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Project director Anvita Abbi, a professor at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, met with Boa as recently as last year. "She was the only member who remembered the old songs," Abbi recounted in her obituary.
"Boa Sr was the only speaker of Bo and had no one to converse with in that language," Abbi told CNN. Her husband and children had already died, the linguist said.
Other than Bo, she also knew local Andaman languages, which she would use to converse, according to Abbi.
"Boa Sr was the only speaker of Bo and had no one to converse with in that language," Abbi told CNN. Her husband and children had already died, the linguist said.
Other than Bo, she also knew local Andaman languages, which she would use to converse, according to Abbi.
I would so totally immerse myself in a language before letting it go extinct.
Nexa
