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Ancient Tribe Goes Extinct as Last Member Dies
Feb 5th 2010 – 7:42PM
CNN
(Feb. 5) – Marking the end of a language and an entire people, the last member of the Bo, an ancient tribe that lived in the Andaman Islands, has died. When Boa Sr, as she was known, died last week, she was believed to be about 85 years old. Her husband had died years beforehand, and Boa, whose name means "land" or...
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