Boa senior
Boa Senior also Boa Sr. (* around 1924 , † January 26, 2010 in Port Blair , South Andaman Island ) was an Indian woman who at the time of her death was the last living member of the Andaman tribe of the Bo and thus also the last spokeswoman for the Since then extinct Andaman language Aka-Bo .
Boa Senior survived diseases brought to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands by the British and the Japanese invasion during World War II . Her mother died about forty years before her. The Bo language was recorded from 2005 by Anvita Abbi, an Indian linguistics professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi . Nao Jer, her husband, with whom she had no children, died before her. In 2004 Boa Senior survived the Indian Ocean tsunami .
She died in a Port Blair hospital in 2010 at the age of 85.
Web links
- RC Camphausen: Boa Senior dies at 85, and with her a language and a culture , digitaljournal.com , February 5, 2010 (English).
- Rossella Lorenzi: 65,000-Year-Old Language Goes Extinct , news.discovery.com , February 5, 2010, (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boa senior |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Boa Sr .; Boa Sr |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | last speaker of the Aka-Bo language |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Andaman Islands |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 26, 2010 |
| Place of death | Port Blair , South Andaman Island |