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The last member of a 65,000-year-old tribe has died, taking one of the world's earliest languages to the grave.
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.


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Another tribal society and it's history has just faded away. This nothing new and has been occurring for thousands of years but it still reminds me of all of the other rural and tribal niches throughout the world that are giving way or giving up their lifestyles and culture for a modern western style life.

Progress is all well and good but does anyone think that we lose something as a species when these small societies die off? Are we losing any knowledge or links to our past or do we look at these groups of people as novelties to gawk at and buy poorly crafted jewelry from while on vacation?

Either way a society that has been around for as long as society has is now no more and another one is soon to follow.

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