The last member of a 65,000-year-old tribe has died, taking one of the world's earliest languages to the grave. Ohhhhhh ... NOOOOOoooo!!! For some reason, this sounds ominous.
Boa Sr, who died last week aged about 85, was the last native of the Andaman Islands who was fluent in Bo.
Named after the tribe, Bo is one of the 10 Great Andamanese languages, which are thought to date back to the pre-Neolithic period when the earliest humans walked out of Africa.
Boa Sr, who died last week aged about 85, was the last native of the Andaman Islands who was fluent in Bo
"Since she was the only speaker of Bo, she was very lonely as she had no one to converse with," Professor Abbi told the Times. Oh really? I'm guessing it wasn't that big of a deal to her ... you know ... since she didn't bother learning another language over the last many years. Either that, or you're lying ... "professor."
Professor Abbi managed to speak with Boa using a local version of Hindi and Great Andamanese, which is a mixture of all ten tribal languages. Oh, so she could speak an amalgam of ten different tribal languages. I guess she was the only one around who could do that as well so she STILL didn't have anyone to talk to. How sad. I guess it was just you and her for the last ... how many years was it ... that you neglected to teach her the language of her neighbors?
With the death of Boa Sr and the extinction of the Bo language, a unique part of human society is now just a memory,' he said.
'Boa’s loss is a bleak reminder that we must not allow this to happen to the other tribes of the Andaman Islands.' More here:
Yes, and it's "bleak" because? Is it because you won't have anything to bleed the government's money with "study" anymore? Seriously, what profit-making entity is paying for the study of this crap?
And we shouldn't "allow" WHAT to happen to the other tribes? Several of them ban contact with outsiders ... yet YOU want to "help" them, right? What are you going to do ... make them have more sex? Are you going to personally oversee all the sex and procreating that goes on in the tribes? Are you going to set up minimums or something? You jackass ... why don't you mind your own business. Oh, I forgot, you don't have any business except bleeding the taxpayers "studying."
Anyway, I could be wrong in my thinking here. Somebody straighten my dumbass out.

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"B"arack "O"bama
It's as if those dumbasses forgot how to procreate.
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