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Posted on February 5, 2010 | tags

 
 

World: Literally dead language: Last speaker of ancient Bo language dies

  • 70,000 the age of the language, spoken in India’s Andaman Islands and thought to have originated from Africa
  • 85 the age of Boa Sr (a woman, BTW), who was the last speaker of the language for 30 to 40 years source
 
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