Boa Sr (c. 1925 – 26 January 2010) was an Indian Great Andamanese elder. She was the last person fluent in the Aka-Bo language. [1] [2] Boa Sr is not to be confused with another Great Andamanese tribal member, Boa Jr; the two women were not directly related.

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 thought to have lived in the Andaman Islands for as much as 65,000 years, making them the descendants of one of the oldest human cultures on Earth.

2010年2月17日 · Boa Sr, thought to have been around 85 years old at the time of her death, was the last living member of the Bo, one of 10 tribes that comprise an ethnic group known as the Great Andamanese...

2010年2月8日 · Boa Sr, the 85-year-old last speaker of "Bo," was the oldest member of the Great Andamanese tribe, R.C. Kar, deputy director of Tribal Health in Andaman, told reporters on Friday. She died last week in Port Blair, the capital of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which were hit by a devastating tsunami in 2004.

Akabo, or Bo (also known as Ba) is an extinct dialect of the Northern Andamanese language. It was spoken on the west central coast of North Andaman [3] and on North Reef Island of the Andaman Islands in India. It was recorded as being mutually intelligible with Aka-Jeru, and the vocabularies are very similar. [4]

从国家幸存者组织的主管Stephen Corry得知，Boa Sr 是10个部落中年龄最长的大安达曼人。 现在活着的大安达曼人有52个，其中大部分是非常贫困的。 Boa Sr,是Bo部落最后一个成员。

2010年2月4日 · Boa Sr remained the last Bo speaker for at least 30 years The last speaker of an ancient language in India's Andaman Islands has died at the age of about 85, a leading linguist has told the BBC....

2010年2月5日 · On a small island 750 miles off the coast of India, one woman's death marked the end of an ancient civilization. Bao Sr was 85, as best she knew, when she died last week.

2010年2月19日 · News of the death of Boa Sr in India’s Andaman Islands—and with her the Bo language, of which Boa was the last known speaker—has focused media attention on humanity’s fast-vanishing endangered languages.

2010年12月24日 · Boa Sr. (circa 1925 - January 26, 2010[1]) was an Indian Great Andamanese elder. She was the last surviving person who remembered any Bo, a language of the Great Andamanese language family. Boa Sr. lived through the epidemic brought by the British to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, which devastated the Great Andamanese population, and the ...