Techa is studying to become a doctor, with hopes of serving her aboriginal community in the Andaman Islands. But the 19-year-old has one regret – she never learned to speak her own indigenous language ...
“Hold on to your language, don’t let it slip away.” These prophetic words of Boa Sr, one of the last speakers of the Great Andamanese languages, kept ringing in my mind for a very long time. “Once I ...