another language bites the dust

[James Harbeck]

"Marking the end of a language and an entire people, the last member
of the Bo, an ancient tribe that lived in the Andaman Islands, has
died."

http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/boa-sr-last-member-of-bo-tribe-on-andaman-islands-dies/19346945?ncid=webmaildl1&sms_ss=email&sms_ss=email

They have a clip with recordings of the speech but, of course, no
grammatical or lexical data. It is good to know, though, that
recordings have been made and evidently a decent amount of analysis
has been done.

James Harbeck.

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