The article didn't say, but I hope that anthropologists and linguists were able to study and document the culture and language of the tribe.

Speak English.

Talk like a man.

Don't fret, Goat.
Aka-Bo has several "siblings" all throughout the Andaman Islands.
They are considered distinct languages, rather than dialects, but they're very close to one another. Although, to be sure, the entire language group is getting close to extinction.

The Andamanese people have lived there for thousands of years. And I don't mean a few thousand, I mean 60+ thousand. This means they would have been part of a VERY early migration. Others continued on to Indonesia, New Guinea, and Australia. There may be a relationship between the Andamanese languages and others of Indonesia, but they've been separated (and isolated) for so long, it's a tough call.

You'd think there would have been some college students or researchers or volunteers -- someone or some group -- who would have made an effort to have gotten this language on tape (and translated) before the last person to ever speak the language had died. Surely there were some in the field of anthropology who had to have known this tribe was close to extinction.