The full article on the BBC site includes a brief recording of the lady speaking the language.
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.
Professor Anvita Abbi said that the death of Boa Sr was highly significant because one of the world's oldest languages - Bo - had come to an end.
She said that India had lost an irreplaceable part of its heritage.
Languages in the Andamans are thought to originate from Africa. Some may be 70,000 years old.
The islands are often called an "anthropologist's dream" and are one of the most linguistically diverse areas of the world......
.......... She said that Boa Sr's death was a loss for intellectuals wanting to study more about the origins of ancient languages, because they had lost "a vital piece of the jigsaw".
"It is generally believed that all Andamanese languages might be the last representatives of those languages which go back to pre-Neolithic times," Professor Abbi said.
"The Andamanese are believed to be among our earliest ancestors." ......
Gu mi-fhortunach cha bhi inntinn aig daoine mu rudan eachdraidheil mar seo air sgath's gum bi am mòr cuid dhiubh a smaoineachadh mu airgead is an là an-diugh a mhàin. Cò as a thàinig sinn? 'S beag an toirt. Ma bhios seann cànain mar sin, (am fear san art sin no am fear aig Rabairt a'Bhruis mar eisimplir) a basachadh, s'beag an toirt.
S'mar sin a tha e doirbh a bhith nad eachdraiche na laighean seo. Agus cuideachd, mar eil mi ceàrr, nad Ghaidheal.
'S e cùis-mhulaid a th' ann am bàs cànain sam bith. Ach cha ghabh mi ris an argamaid gur e seann, sheann chànan a th' ann am Bo. Tha gach cànan cho sean ris a' chèile. Bha daoine, m.e., a' bruidhinn cànan ro-Indo-Eòrpach o chionn 70,000 bliadhna - agus cànan ro-Shìonais, cànan ro-Bho, cànan ro-Arabais, cànan ro-"Fenno-Ugrian" - amsaa. An creid sibh gun robh còmhlan de dhaoine a' suidhe aon latha agus a' co-dhùnadh "Tha! Cruthaicheamaid Indo-Eòrpach!"?
Deagh phuing a th' agad, cha bhiodh cànan sam bith a' fuireach mar a tha e air feadh nan linntean. Chan eil sinne ag ionnsachadh seann Ghaeilge, a bheil?
Co-dhiù is co-dheth, saoilibh gu beil structaran aig a chànan ud nach eil aig cànan sam bith eile? Bhiodh seo fìor-chudromach don luchd-rannsachaidh.
