[4] Boa Sr. worked with Anvita Abbi, a professor of linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University in Delhi, since 2005.

[5] Other members of the Great Andamanese speech community had difficulty understanding the songs and narratives which she knew in Bo.

[6] Boa Sr., who was approximately 85 years old, was the oldest living member of the Great Andamanese tribes at the time.

[7] Boa Sr.'s death left just 52[6] surviving Great Andamanese people in the world, none of whom remember any Bo.

[6] Stephen Corry, director of the British-based NGO Survival International, issued a statement saying, "With the death of Boa Sr. and the extinction of the Bo language, a unique part of human society is now just a memory.