The Bo was one of the ten Indigenous tribes of the Great Andamanese people, originally living on the western coast of North Andaman Island in the Indian Ocean. The tribe spoke the Akabo dialect, closely related to other dialects of the Northern Andamanese language.

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]

The Bo people (Chinese: 僰 人; pinyin: Bó rén) are an ancient extinct people from the Yunnan and Sichuan provinces of Southwestern China. They are famous for their hanging coffins. [1] . They were one of the various now extinct peoples from Southern China known collectively in Chinese records as the Baipu.

2010年2月4日 · 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 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 ...

The Andaman Islands were once home to various indigenous languages, spoken by tribes like the Great Andamanese. As communities dwindled, so did the use of their native tongues. Some languages that once flourished have become extinct, while others teeter on …

2010年2月12日 · The twin processes of pacification and assimilation had the unsurprising consequence of decimating the population of the Andamanese and other tribes on the Andaman islands. Some tribes were rendered extinct – the Aka …

2020年6月10日 · This small group call themselves “Ku”, but are known locally as “Bo” and claim the Bo from Sichuan as their ancestors. Not all, but some, practice hanging coffin burials. This small ethnic group speaks a type of Loloish language, closely related to Tibetan and Burmese.

2010年2月5日 · One of the world's most endangered languages has disappeared forever after the last remaining member of a unique tribe that inhabited the Andaman Islands for as long as 65,000 years died of old...

The oldest inhabitants of the Andaman, the Great Andamanese comprised of 10 distinct tribes namely aka-cari; aka-bo; aka-kora; aka-jeru; aka-kede; oko juwai; aka-kol; a-pucikwar; aka-bale and aka-bea. They once occupied all of Great Andaman and spoke different dialects of …

2 天之前 · In January 2010, Boa Sr, the last surviving member of the ancient Bo tribe, passed away. This quiz looks at the history of the Bo and what the future holds for their neighbouring tribes.