When one woman died in 2010, one of the Andaman Islands' oldest languages died with her
Boa Sr was the last fluent speaker of Bo, one of the Great Andamanese languages linked to some of the oldest human populations to leave Africa. When she died in 2010 at around 85, linguists lost not just a language but one of the last living connections to the pre-colonial Andaman Islands, whose languages are thought to predate the migrations that populated most of the rest of Asia.