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	'''Boa Sr''' (''[[circa]]'' 1925 – 26 January 2010) was an ~~[[India]]n~~ [[Great Andamanese]] elder. She was the last person fluent in the [[Aka-Bo language]].<ref name=guardian/><ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/5509 \|title=Andaman tribe's extermination complete as last member dies \|date=4 February 2010 \|accessdate=2016-07-27 \|publisher=[[Survival International]] }}</ref>		'''Boa Sr''' (''[[Wiktionary:circa\|circa]]'' 2 January 1925 – 26 January 2010) was an Indian [[Great Andamanese]] elder. She was the last person fluent in the [[Aka-Bo language]].<ref name=guardian/><ref>{{cite web \|url=http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/5509 \|title=Andaman tribe's extermination complete as last member dies \|date=4 February 2010 \|accessdate=2016-07-27 \|publisher=[[Survival International]] }}</ref>

	Boa Sr is not to be confused with another Great Andamanese tribal member, Boa Jr; the two women were not directly related. Boa Jr's late mother, Boro (who was also the last speaker of her language, [[Aka-Kora language\|Aka-Kora]]) was Boa Sr's best friend and named her daughter in her honor.		Boa Sr is not to be confused with another Great Andamanese tribal member, Boa Jr; the two women were not directly related. Boa Jr's late mother, Boro (who was also the last speaker of her language, [[Aka-Kora language\|Aka-Kora]]) was Boa Sr's best friend and named her daughter in her honor.

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| birth_place = [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]], [[British India]]
| death_date = 26 January 2010
| death_place = [[Port Blair]], [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]], [[India]]
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'''Boa Sr''' (''[[circa]]'' 1925 – 26 January 2010) was an [[India]]n [[Great Andamanese]] elder. She was the last person fluent in the [[Aka-Bo language]].<ref name=guardian/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.survivalinternational.org/news/5509 |title=Andaman tribe's extermination complete as last member dies |date=4 February 2010 |accessdate=2016-07-27 |publisher=[[Survival International]] }}</ref>

Boa Sr is not to be confused with another Great Andamanese tribal member, Boa Jr; the two women were not directly related. Boa Jr's late mother, Boro (who was also the last speaker of her language, [[Aka-Kora language|Aka-Kora]]) was Boa Sr's best friend and named her daughter in her honor.

==Biography==
Boa was born around 1925.<ref>{{cite news |author=Alastair Lawson |title=Last speaker of ancient language of Bo dies in India |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8498534.stm |quote=The last speaker of an ancient language in India's Andaman Islands has died at the age of about 85, a leading linguist has told the BBC. |work=[[BBC]] |date=February 4, 2010 |accessdate=2010-08-12 }}</ref> Her mother, To, belonged to the [[Bo people (Andaman)|Bo people]] and her father, Renge, belonged to the [[Jeru people]]. Boa's early life was spent in [[Mayabunder]], a town on [[Middle Andaman Island]]. She was married at a young age to Nao, another member of her father's people, although both he and their children predeceased her. She regarded the [[Jeru language]] as her mother tongue.<ref name=adam/><ref name="andamanese1">{{cite web|url=http://www.andamanese.net/generalia.html|title=Boa Sr. profile|publisher=Andamanese.net |date=2009-02-22 |accessdate=2010-05-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100208214255/http://www.andamanese.net/generalia.htm |archive-date=February 8, 2010 }}</ref>

Boa Sr. lived through the [[epidemic]] brought by the British to the [[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]], which devastated the Great Andamanese population, and also through the [[Japanese occupation of the Andaman Islands]] during World War II.<ref name=adam>{{cite web|url=http://www.andamanese.net/BoaSr_Obituary.html |title=Bo Sr.'s obituary |publisher=Andamanese.net |accessdate=2010-05-14}}</ref> In the 1970s, she and other Great Andamanese was forcibly relocated by the government of India to [[Strait Island]], a small tribal reserve east of [[Baratang Island]].<ref name=adam/>

Boa Sr. worked with [[Anvita Abbi]], a professor of [[linguistics]] at [[Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi|Jawaharlal Nehru University]] in [[Delhi]], since 2005. Abbi studied and recorded Boa's language and songs.<ref name="andamanese1"/> Other members of the Great Andamanese speech community had difficulty understanding the songs and narratives which she knew in Bo.<ref name="andamanese1"/> She also spoke the Andamanese [[dialect]] of [[Hindi]], as well as [[Great Andamanese creole]], a mix of the ten indigenous languages of Andamans.

Boa Sr. survived the [[2004 Indian Ocean earthquake]] by climbing a tree. She later explained her escape from the [[tsunami]] saying, "We were all there when the [[earthquake]] came. The eldest told us the [[Earth]] would part, don't run away or move."<ref name=telegraph>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Boa Sr. |encyclopedia=Lives Remembered |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7207731/Lives-Remembered.html|publisher=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=2010-02-10 |accessdate=2010-02-22}}</ref>

Her husband, Nao Jer, died several years before she did and the couple had no children. She suffered from some vision loss during her later life, but was considered to be in good health until shortly before her death in 2010.<ref name=telegraph/>

Boa Sr. died at a hospital in [[Port Blair]] on 26 January 2010.<ref name=telegraph/> Boa Sr., who was approximately 85 years old, was the oldest living member of the Great Andamanese tribes at the time.<ref name=telegraph2>{{cite news|title=Language lost as last member of Andaman tribe dies |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/7161422/Language-lost-as-last-member-of-Andaman-tribe-dies.html|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|date=2010-02-05 |accessdate=2010-02-22}}</ref> Boa Sr.'s death left just 52<ref name=telegraph/> surviving Great Andamanese people in the world, none of whom remember any Bo. Their population is greatly reduced from the estimated 5,000 Great Andamanese living in the Andaman Islands at the time of the arrival of the British in 1858.<ref name=telegraph/>

==Legacy==
[[Stephen Corry]], director of the [[United Kingdom|British]]-based [[NGO]] [[Survival International]], issued a statement saying, "With the death of Boa Sr. and the extinction of the Bo language, a unique part of human society is now just a memory. Boa's loss is a bleak reminder that we must not allow this to happen to the other tribes of the Andaman Islands."<ref name=guardian>{{cite news|author=Jonathan Watt |title=Ancient tribal language becomes extinct as last speaker dies |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/feb/04/ancient-language-extinct-speaker-dies|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=2010-02-04 |accessdate=2010-02-22}}</ref> Linguist Narayan Choudhary also explained what the loss of Boa Sr. meant in both academic and personal terms, "Her loss is not just the loss of the Great Andamanese community, it is a loss of several disciplines of studies put together, including [[anthropology]], [[linguistics]], [[history]], [[psychology]], and [[biology]]. To me, Boa Sr. epitomised a totality of humanity in all its hues and with a richness that is not to be found anywhere else."

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