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. Boa Sr's passing on with Andaman Island's Bo language vindicates language experts who have been warning governments and native speakers against their lackadaisical attitude to their indigenous languages. This shows that all the campaign against Language death or linguistic extinction is no fluke. I want to believe that Bo language is not dead yet. Or did the Late Boa Sr not have children and grand- children to whom she bequeathed the language? May be they, like legions of Nigerian youths, cannot speak the language, let alone document same. The day of reckoning is here for Andaman Islands, which allowed her language to go into the grave with its last fluent speaker. R.I.P. for both of them. This is a great lesson for the upcoming young people of Nigeria. They should learn to speak and write their local languages fluently so that they do not die. 'Mẹ gba, àbó mi,' please, my people, it is not a mark of 'civilisation' to adopt another man's language and culture and abandon your own for termites to feast on. A word is enough for the wise.

http://www.naijapopular.com/2016/07/the-last-member-of-bo-language-of.html?m=1
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That sad.