Pazeh 2010

Taichung and Miaoli, Taiwan (ROC) Pazeh was the language of a community of Taiwanese aboriginals of the same name. Closely related to Saisiyat, the language went extinct in 2010, following the death at age 96 of Pan Jin-yu, the one remaining fluent native speaker. North Andaman Island, India Aka-bo was the language of the Bo tribe. The last speaker, Boa Sr., passed away in January 2010, leading to the extinction of one of the oldest and most linguistically diverse languages. Tayabas, Quezon Province, Luzon, Philippines Over decades, the language was assimilated into the widelyused Tagalog. In 2010, two remaining elders of the community caused the language to die out as they refused to share or record it. ag