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"Boa Senior, from the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean, was the last remaining speaker of the Bo language. Her ancestors and other tribes of the Andaman Islands, such as the Jarawa, are thought to have been part of the first successful human migrations out of Africa. Boa Senior died in 2010. Nearly 55,000 years of a language died with her"
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Form The Guardian.
