Gone and soon forgotten

It's not just creatures that become extinct, languages die too. Boa Sr, the last person fluent in the Bo language of the Andaman Islands, has died, taking with her -- believe it or not -- a verbal cultural history spanning 65,000 years of human existence.

Maybe languages need their own version of the IUCN Red List of threatened species to promote the transcribing of endangered mother tongues. Culture is the poorer for the dominance of a few world languages; the internet doesn't make this trend any easier to tackle.

And tourism to beautiful locations helps to shove indigenous language to the edge of the cliff.