65,000-Year-Old Language Goes Extinct : Discovery News.
I just found the Discovery News article above sad – apparently Boa Sr., the last speaker of the Bo language, died last week. She was a member of the Bo tribe who lived in India’s Andaman islands.
The site also has a video of her singing in Bo, it sounds quite striking. What I really can’t imagine is what it must have been like to be literally the last person in the world who could speak her language, and that too for the last 30-40 years! At least she could communicate in a few other languages, but imagine if you were unable to talk to anyone in your own language…it sounds terrifying to me.