Last member of 65,000 year-old tribe dies

don't really know what to say, its a sad moment in human history, but it was meant to happen eventually and these things happen from time to time. Its just public interest of history is being deminished with obsession with technology, as slowly nearly everything else is.

It IS sad. A unique definition of the universe is lost to us. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Reading this got me to thinking: When does a linguistic unit get defined as a language anyway? Like, Spanish and Italian people can basically understand each other but we define those two as separate languages. I had the weird experience once of discovering that I could basically understand people speaking in Basque because I speak French and Spanish and know a bit of Latin. The other language I speak (to a tiny, tiny extent) is Welsh, which I learned from my fathe... [More]

Oops, I meant CATALAN not Basque. Duh.

They should clone her! The tribe will be preserved, but the language will be lost, but hey! You save an ancient tribe!

What i wanna know is how her tribe was reduced to...well just her, and if their so sad that the language has been lost then may that be a reminder that next time send someone to study it,duh

What i wanna know is how her tribe was reduced to...well just her, and if their so sad that the language has been lost then may that be a reminder that next time send someone to study it,duh i agree. it saddens me how that piece of history has been lost forever.

i agree. it saddens me how that piece of history has been lost forever. There was this native American named Ishi who was the last of his tribe. If this story interests you try Googling "Ishi".

How utterly sad. I hope the good professor recorded her native tongue. Might as well put all our technology to use.

The last representative of the tribe of Bo just passed on... The Face of Bo died.

^ I applaud your Doctor Who reference It's quite sad that this is the end of such an ancient tribe, but I guess all things must end at somepoint