{"id":3865,"date":"2010-02-05T14:32:08","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T14:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2010\/02\/boa-sr\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:46:50","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:46:50","slug":"boa-sr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2010\/02\/boa-sr\/","title":{"rendered":"Boa Sr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boa Sr was apparently the last speaker of the Great Andamanese language Bo (or Aka-Bo, described as extinct in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethnologue.com\/show_language.asp?code=akm\">Ethnologue<\/a>).  According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivalinternational.org\/news\/5509\">Survival International<\/a> there were around  5000 Great Andamanese in 1858 , when the British invaded the Andaman Islands.  Now there are around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andamanese.net\/generalia.htm\">50<\/a> &#8211; killings, diseases and forcible resettlement having caused the decline.  See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andamanese.net\/\">Vanishing voices of the Great Andamanese<\/a> (VOGA).<br \/>\nBoa Sr died in January, and her death has made headlines in many newspapers &#8211; there&#8217;s an article about her in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/feb\/04\/ancient-language-extinct-speaker-dies\">Guardian<\/a> [<em>thanks Simon<\/em>].   Survival International has more information, including a short <a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivalinternational.org\/films\/last-of-the-bo-tribe\">film clip<\/a> with her singing in Bo &#8211; other songs are listed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andamanese.net\/songs.htm\">VOGA<\/a>.  They also have a campaign on to support other Andamanese groups, especially the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivalinternational.org\/tribes\/jarawa\">Jarawa<\/a>, whose survival is under threat from settlers, poachers and loggers.  The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.survivalinternational.org\/tribes\/jarawa\/sentinelese#main\">Sentinelese<\/a> of North Sentinel Island have resisted contact, and Survival International urges the Indian Government to respect this, and to put a stop to poaching.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boa Sr was apparently the last speaker of the Great Andamanese language Bo (or Aka-Bo, described as extinct in the Ethnologue). According to Survival International there were around 5000 Great Andamanese in 1858 , when the British invaded the Andaman Islands. Now there are around 50 &#8211; killings, diseases and forcible resettlement having caused the &#8230; <a title=\"Boa Sr\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2010\/02\/boa-sr\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Boa Sr\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4193,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3865\/revisions\/4193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}