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Two years after India’s Andaman Islands lost the last speaker of ‘Bo’, a leading linguist has warned the Jarawa could face a similar fate unless the road running through their reserve is closedTwo years after India’s Andaman Islands lost the last speaker of... more
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Video showing tribal people on the Andaman islands apparently being forced by police to dance for tourists in causing a storm in India.
The video, published by the Observer newspaper, shows a policeman ordering two naked girls to dance. He reminds them at the start of the video: “I gave you food.”
The Andaman islands in the Bay of Bengal are home to a number of indigenous tribes who are protected and all contact is supposedly banned with them.
But the video shows dozens of vans full of tourists traveling on a road — which was ordered closed by India’s Supreme Court a decade ago — through the spectacular jungle. Tourists throw food to the tribes people, as you might to animals on a safari.
Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/indian-tribe-forced-to-dance-for-tourists-for-food-video.html#ixzz1k2MnBa00
http://youtu.be/HkilueCoafIVideo showing tribal people on the Andaman islands apparently being forced by police... more
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A secret recording of a tour operator in the Andaman Islands telling an undercover journalist to provide 10-15,000 rupees (£120-180/ $180-275) to pay off the police proves that the now notorious ‘human safaris’ are still happening, and provides fresh evidence of police involvement in the scandal.A secret recording of a tour operator in the Andaman Islands telling an undercover... more
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New Delhi, India (CNN) -- The last member of an ancient tribe that has inhabited an Indian island chain for around 65,000 years has died, a group that campaigns for the protection of indigenous peoples has said.
Boa Sr, who was around 85 years of age, died last week in the Andaman islands, about 750 miles off India's eastern coast, Survival International said in a statement.
The London-based group, which works to protect indigenous peoples, said she was the last member of one of ten distinct Great Andamanese tribes, the Bo.
"The Bo are thought to have lived in the Andaman islands for as long as 65,000 years, making them the descendants of one of the oldest human cultures on earth," it noted.
With her passing at a hospital, India also lost one of its most endangered languages, also called Bo, linguists say.
"She was the last speaker of (the) Bo language. It pains to see how one by one we are losing speakers of Great Andamanese and (their) language is getting extinct. (It is) A very fast erosion of (the) indigenous knowledge base, that we all are helplessly witnessing," read an obituary in Boa Sr's honor posted on the Web site of the Vanishing Voices of the Great Andamanese (VOGA) project.
"Boa Sr was the only speaker of Bo and had no one to converse with in that language.
--Anvita Abbi
Project director Anvita Abbi, a professor at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University, met with Boa as recently as last year. "She was the only member who remembered the old songs," Abbi recounted in her obituary.
"Boa Sr was the only speaker of Bo and had no one to converse with in that language," Abbi told CNN. Her husband and children had already died, the linguist said.
Other than Bo, she also knew local Andaman languages, which she would use to converse, according to Abbi.
Boa Sr was believed to be the oldest of the Great Andamanese, members of ten distinct tribes. Survival International estimates there are now just 52 Great Andamanese left.
There were believed to be 5,000 of them when the British colonized the archipelago in 1858. Most of those tribal communities were subsequently killed or died of diseases, says Survival International.
The British also held the indigenous tribes people captive in what was called an Andaman Home, but none of the 150 children born there survived beyond two years of age, according to the group.
Boa Sr also survived the killer Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.
She recorded in Bo what she saw when the giant waves arrived. "While we were all asleep, the water rose and filled all around. We did not get up before the water rose. Water filled where we were and as the morning broke the water started to recede," reads a translation of her tsunami narrative posted on the VOGA Web site.
Activists are expressing alarm over her death.
"Boa's loss is a bleak reminder that we must not allow this to happen to the other tribes of the Andaman islands," Survival director Stephen Corry said in the statement. Andaman and Nicobar Islands authorities put at least five tribes in their list of vulnerable indigenous communities.
According to Corry's group, the surviving Great Andamanese depend largely on the Indian government for food and shelter and abuse of alcohol is rife.
Among the tribes are the Sentinelese, who inhabit a 60-square-kilometer island.
Officials believe the group is probably the world's only surviving Paleolithic people without contact with any other community. They said the Sentinelese are very hostile and never leave their Island. Very little is known about them.New Delhi, India (CNN) -- The last member of an ancient tribe that has inhabited an... more
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The last surviving speaker of the ancient tribal language Bo has died in the South-East Asian Andaman Islands, the Guardian reports. Boa Sr., who had survived the 2004 tsunami by climbing a tree, spoke the language named after an extinct tribe.
Her death breaks a link with a culture dating back 65,000 years.
Story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/04/ancient-language-extinct-speaker-diesThe last surviving speaker of the ancient tribal language Bo has died in the... more
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A massive magnitude 7.6 quake struck in the Indian Ocean off India's Andaman Islands, triggering a tsunami watch for India, Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Bangladesh, the U.S. Geological Survey reported on Monday.
The USGS said the quake, initially reported as a magnitude 7.7, was 20.6 miles deep and was centered 160 miles north of Port Blair in the Andaman Islands.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami watch for the region.A massive magnitude 7.6 quake struck in the Indian Ocean off India's Andaman... more
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1. Jeru (or Great Andamanese)
Spoken by fewer than 20 people on the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean.
2. N|u (also called Khomani)
This is a Khoisan language spoken by fewer than 10 elderly people whose traditional lands are located in the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park in South Africa.
3. Ainu
The Ainu language is spoken by a small number of old people on the island of Hokkaido in the far north of Japan.
4. Thao
Sun Moon Lake of central Taiwan is the home of the Thao language, now spoken by a handful of old people while the remainder of the community speaks Taiwanese Chinese (Minnan).
5. Yuchi
Yuchi is spoken in Oklahoma, USA, by just five people all aged over 75. Yuchi is an isolate language (that is, it cannot be shown to be related to any other language spoken on earth).
6. Oro Win
The Oro Win live in western Rondonia State, Brazil, and were first contacted by outsiders in 1963 on the headwaters of the Pacaas Novos River.
7. Kusunda
The Kusunda are a former group of hunter-gatherers from western Nepal who have intermarried with their settled neighbours.
8. Ter Sami
This is the easternmost of the Saami group of languages (formerly called Lapp, a derogatory term), located on the Kola Peninsula in Russia.
9. Guugu Yimidhirr
Guugu Yimidhirr is an Australian Aboriginal language spoken at Hopevale near Cooktown in northern Queensland by around 200 people.
10. Ket
Ket is the last surviving member of a family of languages spoken along the Yenesei River in eastern Siberia.
1. Jeru (or Great Andamanese)
Spoken by fewer than 20 people on the Andaman Islands... more
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